Shanghai
Canten
Swatow
Amoy
Foochow
Takow Ningpo
Hankow
Kiukiang
Chinkiang
Chefoo
Tientsin
Newchwang
Tamsui
Total...
Ports.
342
CHINA.
The amount of duties collected at each of the fourteen treaty ports, in the year
1867 and 1868, was as follows:--
1867.
1863.
Taels.
Taels.
2,304.319
2,501,436
934,774
866,269
420,863 503,327
381,012
426,044
1,708,653
1,813,361
68,471
51,486
452,601
567,903
943,857
1,152,580
426,507
554,099
23.814
33,095
238,911
234,363
411,297
390,605
231,972
215,736
49,037
69,347
8,719,444
9,307,317
£2,906,143
£3,102,449
The value of the total exports from China to the United Kingdom, and of the imports of British and Irish produce and manufactures iuto China, was as follows iu
each of the ten years from 1859 to 1868 :-
Years.
Exports from China to Great Britain.
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£
Imports of British Home Produce
in China.
£
1859...
9,014,310
2,525,997
1860
9.323,764
2,872.045
1861...
9,070,445
3,114,694
1862
12,137,095
2,024,118
1863.
14,186,310
2,416,705
1864
15,673,930
3,092,611
1865.
10,677.995
3,603,595
1866
10,346,388
5,090,074
1867
9,340,402
4,996,4-9
1869
11,217,450
6,312,175
The exports from China to Great Britain and Ireland are made up, to the amount of more than nine-tenths, of one article of merchandise, namely, tea. In the year 1864, the quantity of tea sent from the treaty ports to the United Kingdom was 112,128,032 lbs., valued at £8,386,629; in 1865 there were sent 109,805,895 lbs., valued at £9,081,486; in 1866, 127,486,120 lbs,, valued at £10,178,070; in 1867, 114,511,388 lbs., valued at £8,951,954; and in 1868 there were sent 137,042,375 lbs., valued at £10,945,530. The other experts from China to Great Britain, insignificant in comparison with the staple export, comprise raw silk and various drugs. From 1863 to 1865, the exports included large quantities of raw cotton, but the supply ceased entirely after 1867. Manufactured cotton and woollen goods, the former of the value of £4,501,920, and the latter of £1,154,281 in the year 1868, constitute the bulk of the imports of British produce into the Chinese empire.
China is traversed in all directions by 20,000 imperial roads, and though most of
them are badly kept, a vast internal trade is carried on over them, and by numerous canals and navigable rivers. It is stated that the most populous part of the empire is singularly well adapted for the construction of a network of railways.
means of
EMPIRE OF CHINA.
Census and Stalistical Returns.
Topography.
Staple Productions.
GEOGRAPHICAL AND STATISTICAL.
Kae-fung-foo... 23,037,171 Shan-ai, .......... Tae-yuen-foo.... 14,004,210 Kang-soo,... Nankin 37,843,501 Honan,....
Shan-tung,......Tze-nan-foo.....| 28,958,764 Chih-li,........... Pekin.............. 27,990,871
Woo-chang-foo. 37,370,098 ........ Chang-cha-foo.. 18,652,507 ) Che-kiang,...... Hang-chow-foo 26,256,784 Kan-suh.......... Lan-chow-foo... 15,193,135) Shen-se,........ Se-gan-foo....... 10,207,256 Sze-chuen,......,Ching-tow-foo... 21,435,678
Hoo-pih, Hu-nan,
| Gan-hwuy................ Gan-king-foo... 34,168,059 Kiang-si,....... Nan-chang-foo.. 30,426,999 Foo-kien,......... Foo-chow-foo... 14,777,410
Westward very flat, sloping towards the sea, sterile. Millef, ginseng, tobacco, coal, saltpetre. Mountainous, a bracing climate, bold and good Corn, drugs, wine and skins.
473
515
harbours.
253
Very mountainous, and sterile and woody.
353
Flat, very fertile, climate agreeuble.
Very low and fertile, climate good.
The garden of China; rhubarb, musk, indigo. Medical herbs, cotton, porcelain, gobl. tin, Silk, wine, iron, salt, marble, unsk. lead, sult.
774 Romantic scenery, and fertile on the bank of the Varnish, green tea, silk, rice, millet.
Yang-tsze.
Sterile and hilly; climate healthy.
Coarse cloths, hemp, porcelain, drugs.
276 Very mountainous, good harbours, fertile where Black teu, camphor, sugar, indigo, wood, to- capable of cultivation.
671
317
164 128
Kwang-tung,... foo (Ĉanton) }
Kwang-chow-1
19,147,030
Kwang-si, ...................
Kwe-lin-foo......
7,313,895
Yun-nau,......... Yun-nan-foo..... Kwei-choo,...... Kwei-yang-foo.
5,561,320 5,288,219 Total,...... 367,632,907
82
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214
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Slightly elevated and fertile, a good climate. Well watered, numerous lakes and rivers. Mountainous, fertile fields, and sandy deserts. Bold const, good harbors, fertile, fine climate. Plains and mountains-cold and barren.
On the sea coast very hilly, yet fertile.
baceo.
Silk, cotton, paper, wines, and Lung-tsing- cha (a costly tea.)
Gold, silver, quicksilver, tin, drugs, and hemp. Tea, paper, rice, rhubarb, musk, tobacco. Copper, iron, fin, opium, rhubarb, rice, salt, Woollens, iron, copper, drugs, furs, millet. Gold, quicksilver, musk, tobaren. drugs.
Fruit, rice, spices, iron, lead, sugar.
Rice, silk, tea, sugar, fruits, iron.
Excessively mountainous, wild, bleak, with jungle. Rich in metals, rice, musk. Excellent barbours, fertile soil, climate good. Bold mountains, fertile valleys, large forests. Wild and mountainous, intersected by rivers.
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tobacco, drugs.
Inhabitants
Province.
Provincial Capital.
Mile. Population. per Square
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CHINA.
Money, Weights, and Measures.
The money, weights, and measures, in ordinary use at the treaty ports and in
the intercourse with foreigners, are as follows:-
Money.
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upon Chinese merchants, Mexican dollars are mostly converted into taels, at the rate of 1,000 dollars for 720 taels. But payments in cash are usually weighed at 717 taels for 1,000 dollars.
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Weights and Measures.
13 oz. avoirdupois.
133 lbs.
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14 inches.
11 feet.
194 to a degree, or about ¦ English mile.
In the tariff settled by treaty between Great Britain and China, the Chil of 14. English inches has been adopted as the legal standard. It is the only authorised measure of length at all the ports of trade, and its use is gradually spreading all over the em- pire.
JAPAN.
Constitution and Goreramat.
The system of government of the Japanese empire is as yet but imperfectly known. The supreme head of the State is an hereditary Emperor called Mikado, or "the Venerable," whose name is said to be known only to the princes of the Imperial family, and who appears to be considered of semi-divine origin. At his side stands a second Emperor, the Ziogoon. “Great Lord," or, as commonly styled, the Tycoon, whose office also is hereditary in his family, and who represents the central executive. But neither the Mikado nor the Treoon seem to be possessed of absolute authority. extending over the whole State. The government of the country is partly vested in a number of feudal princes, or Daimios, proprietors in their own right of a more or less extensive territory.
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There exists no regular law of succession to the throne, but in case of death of the Mikado, or of his abdication-the latter extremely frequent in modern times— the crown devolves generally, not on his son, but on either the eldest or the most distinguished member of his house. It is not uncommon the palace intrigues settle the choice, the only condition of legality of which is that the elect should be member of the Shi sinwo, the "Four Imperial Relatives," or Royal Families of Japan. The throne can be, and has frequently been, occupied by a female, who, however, is not allowed to remain single, but must seek a consort within the limit of the Shi sinwo.
The administration of the empire is carried on by two Councils of State, the first, called the Gorogio, composed of five members, and the second, the Onwakado-uchisri, of seven members. Over the first council, which more immediately represents the executive authority, persides the Gotario, or prime-minister, who occupies the post of regent of Japan, in the event of minority, or during the temporary illness of the Treoon. The Gotario is elected by the two Councils of State and the principal Daimios of the empire, from among the latter class.
The Daimios form among themselves the Great Council of the empire. and in order that they may be known to the people, an official list of their names is published periodically at Yedo, the capital. The list gives the family name and genealogy of each, as well as the fullest particulars of his family, his wife, the names of his sous wives, and his daughters' husbands, the number of his residences, the extent and value of his territorial and other property, the uniform of his retainers, the design of his coat of arms, the flag carried on his ships, and the shape and colour of the leather covering of his spears of state, carried before him on ts to the Mikado and the Tycoon. A list of Daimios published at Yedo in 1862, stated their number at 266, with incomes varying from 10,000 to 610,500 koban, or from about £15,000 to £915,500. The territory of each Daimio forms a sovereignty within itself, governed, in the case of the more powerful magnates, by a Secretary of State, called Karo, and a number of assistant ministers going by the title of Byshing, who are often persons of high rank. It is reported that "some Byshing are wealthier men than the majority of the Daimios, dwelling in splendid castles, and recognised by the Yedo government.
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Each of the great territorial magnates called Daimios being absolute lord within his own territory, and having power of life and death over all his subjects and dependents, cert.. districts only are under the immediate control of the central Government, and their revenues are assigned to the maintenance of the sovereign rulers of the State, the Mikado and the Tycoon. The influence of the former ros greatly after a short civil war, which came to an end at the commencement of 1869 and the consequences of which seem to tend to the establishment of a monarchy in Japan.
army and Population.
The armed force of Japan is composed of two distinct elements:-1. The troop maintained by the Daimies, and destined for the defence of their domains. 2. T troops kept by the Tycoon, and constituting the imperial army. The number of Daimios who have troops in their service amonuts to 200, and they together maintain an effective of 370,000 infantry, and 40,000 cavalry, forming the Federal army, and placed at the orders of the Tycoon when the independence of the country is threatene. The imperiai arany, placed under the command of the Tycoon, reaches the nominal figure of 100,000 infantry and 20,000 cavalry, but its actual force does not exceed half of that amount. The late Tycoon reorganised the force in 1865-66, and it is said to comprise 80,000 men, infantry, cavalry, artillery, and engineers. The infantry is formed into regiments, manoeuvring like the French soldiers, and armed on the same model. A number of Japanese officers and sub-officers were instructe by French military men at Yokoluma in 1866-69.
The total area of Japan is estimated at 156,604 square miles, with a population of 35,000,000, or 229 per square mile. The empire is geographically divided into the three islands of Nippon, the central and most important territory; Kiushiu, "the uine provinces," the south-western island; and Sikok, "the four states," the southern island. Administratively, there consists a division into seven large districts, called "Do," or roads, which are subdivided into sixty-three provinces.
The number of foreigners settled in Japan is as yet very small. At the ewi of the year 1862, the foreign community at Kanagawa, the principal of six ports of Japan open to aliens, consisted of fifty-five natives of Great Britain; thirty-eight Americans; twenty Dutch; eleven French; and two Portuguese; and in the latter part of 1864 the permanent foreign residents in Kanagawa bad increased to 300, not counting soldiers, of which number 140 were British subjects, and about 80 Ame- ricans, and 40 Dutch. At Nagasaki, the second port of Japan thrown open to foreign trade by the government, the number of alien settlers on the 1st January, 1866 -British subjects 70; American citizens 32:
amounted to 166, of whom there were- Dutch 26; Prussian 19; French 14; Portuguese 3; Swiss 2.
A third port opened to European and American traders, that of Hakodadi, in the north of Japan, was deserted, after a lengthened trial, by nearly all the foreign merchants settled there, it having been found impossible to establish any satisfactory intercourse with the natives. Hakodadi is situated on an island where there is little or uo cultivation, separated from the continent of Niphon by the Sangar Straits. No Japanese can enter Hakodadi or have commercial intercourse with any foreigner. without permission from the officials, who claim a large percentage on the business transacted.
Fines are seldom im
There is an edict of 1637 still in force in the whole of Japan, which makes it a capital offence for natives to travel into other countries. Japanese seamen, even which accidentally cast ou foreign shores, are on their return subjected to a rigorous examination, and sometimes imprisonment, to purify them from the supposed pollu tion contracted abroad. The laws of Japan are very severe. posed; banishment to the mines, imprisonment, torture, death by decapitation, and impaling on a cross, are ordinary penalties of crime, the shades of which are little distinguished. It frequently happens, also, that the courts visit with punishment not only the delinquents themselves, but their relatives and dependents, and even strangers who have accidentally been spectators of their crimes. The prisons are gloomy abodes, containing places for torture and private executions, besides numerous
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The quantities and value of the imports of British and Irish produce and manu-
factures into Japan, in the year 1868, were as follows:
Imports of British Home Produce into Japan.
Apparel and haberdashery.
Arms and ammunition ...................................................
Beer and Ale. .....
Quantities.
Value.
£
Talvej
10,870
"
89,090
Barrels
Coals, cinders, and culm......
Tons
1,962 30,109
8,426
.Lbs.
Cotton yarn
Cottons, entered by the yard,
Yards
4,302,110 22,834,439
18,051 267,205
396,204
Iron, wrought and unwronght.
Tons
2,682
992
F
21,174 25,211
Lead and shot..
Machinery and Millwork.
Linens, entered by the yard........
Yards
68,019
2,623
Falue
10,371
..Cwts
1,194
Soap.
Value
Tin Plates...........
Woollens, entered by the yard.
Yards T'alue!
3.682,230
206,976
All other articles..
Total.
53,354 1,112,804
1,018 1,331
The internal trade of Japan is very extensive, and a variety of regulations are in force, the object of which is to protect and encourage home industry. The prices of goods are not enhanced by imports of any kind; and communication between the great markets and all parts of the empire is facilitated by numerous coasting vessels and well-maintained roads. Foreign commerce, however, so far from being encouraged, is vigorously opposed by the Government. Nevertheless, by the treaties made with several European Governments--with the United States in March, 1854; with Great Britain in October 1854; with Russia and the Netherlands in 1855; with France in 1859; with Portugal in 1860; with Prussia and the Zollverein in 1861; with Swit- zerland in 1864; with Italy in 1866; and with Denmark in 1867-the six Japanese ports of Nagasaki, Kanagawa, Niegata, Hiogo, Osaka, and Hakodadi where thrown open to foreign commerce.
Money, Weights, and Measures.
The money, weights, and measures in common use at the three open ports of
Japan, and the British equivalents, are :—
The Ichibu (silver), average rate of exchange.
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....£1 98. 2d.
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HONGKONG
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Hongkong is que si a number of islands called by the Portuguese “Lad Thieves. In the notorious babits of the old inhabitants: it is situatsi of the fastern coast of China. at the mouth of the Canton Raven, about 40 miles cast Macao, between 20 = 2 and 2271_N_332, and 1147 6 and 11AS IS F sand is an irregular and broken ridge, stretching nearly cast and west and abrupt peaks rising sometimes to a great height above sea level Sbout 11 miles. its breadth from 2 to 5 miles, its area rather more than 29 miles. It is separated from the mainland of China by a narrow stratt, known as Ly-ee-moon Pass, which does not exceed half a mile in width. The opposite penis. of Kowloon has been ceded to Great Britain by a Treaty entered into by Lord Ei in 1861 with the Government of China; it now forms part of Hongkong. The general. aspect of the Colony has been described as extremely beautiful. It possesses one of the most magnificent harbours in the world, surrounded by picturesque hills namng letween 3,000 and 4000 feet high, and offers a cong d'è!! which blends the wild scenery of Scotland with the classic beauty of Italy, and just enough of the tropies to heighten the effect. The City of Victoria extends for four miles at the base of the bills, which protect the south side of the harbour, and contains upwards of 6,000 houses of stone and brick. The residences of the foreign merchants are numerons, and most of them are large, substantial, and handsome mansions. Being built on the slope of the hills facing the sea, the general aspect of the town is perhaps more striking and picturesque from the water than that of any other city in the east, whilst many of the streets are now shaded with well-grown and handsome trees. annual range of the thermometer is said to be from 40° to 93° Fahr., but is probably greater.
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The Colony was first ceded to Great Britain in January, 1841; the cession was confirmed by the Treaty of Nankin, in August, 1842; and the charter bears date ôth April, 1843. But Hongkong perhaps comes more properly under the designation of a great commercial depôt than that of a Colony; it is valuable to Great Britain mainly as a factory for our commerce with China, and as a military and naval station for the protection of that commerce; its distance from Singapore is about 1,520 miles, The occupation of Hongkong at its outset was effected at considerable cost to Imperial funds. the vote from Parliament in the year 1845 being nearly £30,000, in addition to military expenditure.
Hongkong may be considered to have paid its local establishments since 1854. The Government is administered by a Governor, aided by an Executive Council com- posed of the Colonial Secretary, the Officer Commanding the Troops, the Attorney- General, and the Auditor-General. The Legislative Council is presided over by the Governor, and is composed of the Chief-Justice, the Colonial-Secretary, the Attorney- General, the Treasurer, the Auditor-General, and four unofficial members, nominated by the Crown on the recommendation of the Governor.
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There is a large Police force in the Colony, numbering 628 men, of whom 115 Europeans, 308 Indians, and 205 Chinese.
Hongkong is the centre of trade in many kinds of goods. Amongst the principal mbe noticed opium, sugar, and flour, produced in Tungkoon. Salt, earthenware, oil, amber, cotton and cotton goods, sandalwood, ivory, betel, vegetables, live stock, granite, &c., &c. The principal transactions in the Tea and Silk trade are also con- trolled by firms residing in Hongkong.
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As it is a free port, it is impossible to give a correct return of imports and exports
A Stamp Tax was introduced by the Government in December, 1866, and is
now in operation.
Annual average rain fall, 81 inches.
Hongkong pays £20,000 a year to the Imperial Government as a Military Cou
tribution.
GOVERNORS,
1843. Sir Henry Pottinger. Bart.. G.C.B. 1844. Sir John F. Davis, Bart., K.C.B. 1818. Sir George Bonham, Bart., K.C.B.
1. Hongkong, and pontię po 15: UDINESE ORIGIN
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1856 1857 185
Reneuve, £35,500
Expenditure.
£12,426
68,842
85,497
62,476
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1852. Major-General Jervois (ucting).
1859
63,225
66,109
1853. Sir George Bonham. Bart.. K.C.B. 1851. Sir John Bowring, Kat.
1860
94,182
72,300
1861
127,241
109,632
1854. Lieut.-Colonel Caine (Lieut.-Liovernor).
1862
131,512
122,423
1859, Sir Hercules (i. R. Robinson, Kut.
1863
120,078
122,201
1862. William T. Mercer (acting).
1861
132.885
159,029
188k Sir Hercules Robinson, Knt.
1865
175,717
195,376
1865. W. T. Mercer (ucting).
1866
160,226
196,009
1866. Sir Richard Graves MacDonnell, C.B.
18307
179,043
152,780
Revenue.
Expenditure.
1888 1889
238.272
2.6,503
1846
£27,046
1847
31,078
1848
25,091
£00,351
50.959 62,658
1349
1850
1851
1832
1833
1854
23,617 23,620 23,721 21,331 21,7(x) 27,045
38,986 34.314 34,115 34.765 36,418
1883
1861 1865 1866
1,644 1.903
2,034
2,113
34,635
1867
2,151
1855
40,813
1868-9
2,266
1-70, Major-General. Whitfeild (Lieut.-Governor,}
192,409
Population.
European and American.
1802
1.601
102,349
415.
Imports of
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2.872.045
3.114.594
2.024,11%
15:3
2.416,700
Total.
1564
3.0002.865
113224 478.. 1,615,80
3.137842
4.711.478.
123,206 119,535 123,470 115,120 115,321
123,611 124,850
1565
3.203.595
152.29%
1866
5.90.074
477.091
121,498
125,504 117,23%
1507
1865
117,471
1569
2.186,100 2.130.8 7
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114,996
117,285
Chinese, &c.
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Trade and Commerce.
The commercial intercourse of Hongkong-virtually a part of the commerce of China—is chiefly with Great Britain, the United States, and Germany, Great Britain. absorbing about one-half of the total imports and exports. There are no official re- turus of the value of the imports and exports of the colony, from and to all countries, but only mercantile estimates, according to which the former average four, and the latter two millions sterling,
The extent of the commercial intercourse between Hongkong and the United Kingdom is shown in the following table, which gives the value of the total exports from Hongkong to Great Britain and Ireland, and of the imports of British and Irish produce and manufactures into Hongkong, in each of the five years 1865 to
1869:-
Years.
1865
Exports from Hongkong Imports of British Produce
to Great Britain.
£
773,068
282,273
1865
1867
183,373
1868
1869
235,804
281,932
into Hongkong.
£
1 548.698
2,387.017
2,471 809 2,185,972
2,130,837
The chief article of exports from Hongkong to Great Britain in the five years 1865-69 was raw cotton, the value of which amounted to £532,059 in 1865, but sank to £10,001 in 1867, and ceased altogether in 1868. Tea, of the value of £48,964 in 1869, against £157,907 in 1868, was the only other notable export article during the same period. The British imports into Hongkong consist almost entirely of manu factured textile fabrics, mainly cotton goods.
The subjoined table gives the value of the exports of British and Irish produce and manufactures from 1850 to 1869, exhibiting separately the exports to China and
LOF.GL
6.312.566 6.542.84
It will be seen that the British trade with Hongkong underwent great fluctuat, "s in the twenty years from 1880 to 1869, but which corresponded throughout with the general Chinese commerce. differing only in so far as showing a trebling in the value of the Exports sent direct to China during this period, and little progress n tuose sent by way of Hongkong.
(From the China Pilot.,
Hongkong Island.—About 9 miles long, N.W. by W. and SE. by E. 2 to 5, miles broad, and with an area of about 29 square miles, lies between Lamina Island and the pain, from which it is separated by a narrow channel a quarter of a mile wide, named L-ee-moon pass. The appearance of the island is somewhat picturesque, but on the *hole it is generally barren and unprepossessing. It consists for the most part of rocky ranges, on the highest summit of which, Victoria Peak, 1.825 feet above the sea level. at the north west part of the island, is a signal station, which communicates with the town of Victoria on the north and the ocean on the south. The island was first coded to Great Britain by the treaty of Canton, in January, 1841, and again by the treaty of Nanking in August, 1842. The British settlement of Victoria is on its north side, early abreast of Kowloon point, the extreme of the peninsular of the mainland which forms the west side of Kowloon Bay and which was ceded to Great Britain by the treaty of 1860. Water abounds everywhere, and is supplied to shipping by tanks.
The shores of Hongkong are indented by numerous bays, of which the most con- derable are on its south-east shore. There is good anchorage throughout the entire channel between the island and the main, except in the Ly-ee-moon pass, where the water s deep: but the best anchorage is in Hongkong roads, in front of the settlement, where the depth is from 5 to 9 fathoms over good holding ground. During the Typhoon months the anchorage in the northern part of the roads is considered preferable, in consequence of the shelter afforded by Kowloon peninsular to the north-east, the point from which the wind blows hardest. The inner anchorage in Victoria bay is in 6 and 7 fathoms water, about half a mile off shore, abreast the ordnance jetty, where a vessel will be sheltered from the eastward by Kellett's Island and the rocks off east or Matheson point, and be out of the strength of the tide.
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Docks.-There is excellent dock accommodation in Hongkong. The "Hope at Kowloon, both belonging to the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Company, are capable of taking vessels of over 400 feet in length, and with a draught of 24 feet. There are also several minor docks and slips, which leave nothing to be desired in the facility with which vessels can be refitted in the shortest time; possibly, in this respect, being unequalled by any other Port of equal extent in the World.
Dock" at Aberdeen, and the "No. 1 Dock
Tides. It is high water, full and change, in Hongkong roads at 10h. 15m., and springs rise about 4 feet. The tides around the island are irregular, flowing and ebbing without any apparent change of direction at the surface, and sometimes there appears to be only one tide in 24 hours.
Directions.-Hongkeng road is generally approached by sailing vessels from the westward, on which side it is protected by Green Island and Kellett bank, which extends nearly 13 miles northward from the latter island, and carries a depth of 3 fathoms. It is sometimes approached from the eastward through the Ly-ee-moon Pass during the N.E. monsoon, but the winds are generally baffling under the high land.
When abreast Green Island, if the vessel be of heavy draught, keep the peak of Lamma Island (Mount Senhouse, 1,143 feet high) open westward of Green Island S. E. until Devil's Peak (on the mainland near Ly-ee-moon Pass) is in the line with the White rock on the south point of Won-chu-chau, or Stone-cutter's Island, when a S.E. by E. course will lead northward of Kellett bank, and direct for the anchorage.
Vessels of proper draught can proceed over Kellett bank or through the 4 fathoms channel between Green Island and the south part of the bank, by passing about 1 cables northward of the Island, and then steering for the road.
The narrow channel between Green Island and Hongkong, may be taken if a fresh fair wind blows right through.* Many sailing vessels have used it, amongst which were H.M.'s ships Modeste, Wellesley, and Vernon. It has depths of 10 to 12 fathome in the middle, shoaling to 8, 6, and 43 fathoms after passing the small islets eastward of Green Island.
Tytam Bay and Harbour.--There are several small bays on the southern shore of Hongkong, all of which are safe for small vessels; but at the south-east part of the island is a deep inlet, named Tytam bay, 23 miles deep, 14 miles wide at entrance, free from danger, and carries a depth of 10 to 16 fathoms. Tytam head, the western point of entrance, is a high bluff, with 13 and 14 fathoms near it; from thence the western shore of the bay trends about N. by E. three-quarters of a mile to a small sandy bay, with a rocky islet fronting the beach. About half a mile northward of the islet the land forms a round projecting point, and northward of this point is a large bay, with a sandy beach, in which is Tytam village.
Tylong head, or Cape D'Aguilar, off which are two green islets, forms the eastern point of entrance to Tytam bay, and from thence the eastern shore of the bay bends round to the northward for 2 miles, and terminates in a small inlet, called Tytam har- bour, carrying 4 to 6 fathoms, but its head, to the northwest, is shoal and rocky. This bay would be useful to a vessel in the event of her being near Wag-lan at the close of the day, with the probability of a dark and tempestuous night, for by running in she will at any rate be snug, even if there should be a typhoon during the night.
Water.—At the head of Tytam harbour there is a rivulet of fresh water, which, however, cannot be procured without inconvenience when the tide is low. Water may be obtained at Tytam village, on the western shore of the bay.
Tides.-There is little tide in Tytam bay, and, like all the places hereabouts, it is difficult to fix the time of high water, owing to the variety of channels, and the wind greatly influencing the tidal streams; but the rise and fall is about 7 or 8 feet at springs, and about 3 or 4 feet at neaps. The ebb sets to the eastward between Lo-chau and Hongkong.
* J. W. King. Master of H.M.S. Wellesley, 1812.
THE STAMP ORDINANCE.
THE "STAMP ORDINANCE. 1866.
[No. 12 or 1866.]
ORDERS
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Made by Governor SIR RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL, in Council, under Authority
of the "Stamp Ordinance, 1866."
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1867.
1.-The Stamps to be used shall be: First, adhesive Stamps of the respective
values of 3, 25, and 50 cents, and 1, 2, 3, and 10 dollars; Secondly,-impressed or em bossed Stamps of the respective values of 10, 25, and 50 cents, and 1, 2, 21, 4, 41, 5, 61, 81, 10, 101, 20, 25, and 40 dollars. A Stamp bearing the words "Adjudication Fee Paid" shall also be used.
2.—All impressed Stamps shall be made and impressed in the Stamp Office in the City of Victoria, on either paper or parchment, and shall be of the form and size of the specimen Stamps enclosed in a case for Public inspection under the seal of the Colony, which case shall be kept at the Stamp Office.
3. Each of the seven kinds of Adhesive Stamps afore-mentioned, shall be of the form, size, and material of the specimen Stamps enclosed in a case for Public in- spection under the Seal of the Colony, which case shall be kept at the Stamp Office. 4.--Adhesive Stamps may be used for the documents specified in Section 1 of the Schedule to the "Stamp Ordinance, 1866"; for Bills of Exchange, specified in Section 3 of the Schedule, when drawn out of the Colony; Powers of Attorney under Section 8; Notes of Protest under Section 9; Receipts and Discharges under Section 11. They may also be used when the Duty on a Duplicate or Counterpart of a Deed, &c., under Clause 4, of Section 17, is under $10 and does not exceed $20; and when the Instru ments referred to in Section 21 may be drawn out of the Colony: nothing herein con- tained shall, however, prevent it being lawful for impressed Stamps being used for when such impressed Stamps can be obtained, or prevent the use of
these Adhesive Stamps in part payment of any duty where two or more Stamps are required,
purposes, when the same cannot be made up by impressed Stamps.
5.-The Stamp duty on Bank Notes specified in Section 2 of the said Schedule, shall, for the first half year subsequent to the commencement of Ordinance No. 12 of 1866, be only two-thirds of that declared to be leviable half-yearly under Section 2 of the said Schedule.
6.-The Stamp duty on Bills of Exchange, Promissory Notes, and other Obliga- tions, specified in Section 3 of the said Schedule, for the payment of Money not exceed- ing Fifty Dollars, shall for the first half year subsequent to the commencement of the said Ordinance, be 50 cents, or, if drawn in sets, 25 cents for each part of a set.
7-The Maximum Stamp duty payable on any one Letter or other Instrument of Hypothecation under Section 16 of the Schedule of the said Ordinance, shall not, dur- ing the first half year from the commencement of the Ordinance, exceed the sum of
25 dollars.
8-Stamps shall be impressed or embossed at the Stamp Office, and Adhesive Stamps sold between the hours of 10 A.M. and 3 P.M. every day, authorized holidays excepted.
Approved in Council,
RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL,
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THE STAMP ORDINANCE.
“STAMP ORDINANCE, 1866.”
[No. 12 of 1866.]
ADDITIONAL ORDER
Made by His Excellency SIR RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL, in Council,
this 4th day of October, 1867.
The Stamp duty on a Charter Party shall be, during the first half-year subse- quent to the commencement of the said Ordinance, Three Dollars, and also if in sets for each Second, Third, and subsequent part of every such set, One Dollar.
Approved in Council,
RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL,
L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO,
Clerk of Councils.
Governor.
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6 – Adhesive Stamos may be used for Bills of Exchange, when drawr out o tay, as specified in section 3 of the said Schedute, and ardor A Lahority of hea The Stamp Ordinaner, 785f" provided always that the Stany or Bills Exchange not exceeding $200 drawn, out of the Calors shall be 25 cents will further du-uud pri vided also that Adhesive Stamps may be used for receipts and dis Larges under section 11 of the Schedule 1: The Starry Amendment". Oslimanov S“ Nothing, however, herein contained shall prevent its being lav hul to ase
pressed Stamps for any of the foregoing purposes
6.
-Stamps shall be impressed or embossed at the Stamp-office, and. Aches vi Stamps sold between the hours of 10 am and 8 row, every day, authorised holidays axepted. Approved in Coane).
L. DALMADA E CASTRO,
Chork of Comucās.
RICHARD GRAVPS MACDONNELL.
"STAMP ORDINANCE, 1866.”
[No. 12 of 1866.]
ADDITIONAL ORDER
Made by His Excellency SIR RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL, in Council,
this 18th day of October, 1867.
The Stamp Duty payable on any Letter or other Instrument of Hypothecation accompanying deposit of documents of Title to any property, during the period of the first six Months from the coming into operation of the said Ordinance, shall be Two Dollars for every Sum not exceeding Five Thousand Dollars, so secured, and for every further amount not exceeding Five Thousand Dollars, a further Stamp Duty of Two Dollars shall be payable, but when the Sum secured shall amount to Sixty Thousand Dollars or upwards, no further Stamp Duty than Twenty-four Dollars shall be payable.
Approved in Council, RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL,
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
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The following Additional Order made by His Excellonov Governor Sir hierary GRAVES MACDONNELL, C.B., in Council. under The Stamp Ordinance. 1866.” 18 published for general information.
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J. GARDINER AUSTIN,
Colonial Scorelarg
L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO,
Clerk of Councils.
Governor.
Colonial Secretary's Office. Hongkong.
26th October, 1868.
ORDER
Made by His Excellency Governor Sir RICHARD Graves MacDonnell, C.B.,
1.-It is hereby ordered that the Orders of the Governor in Council of the 28th
in Council, this 9th day of June, 1868. September, 1867, the 4th October, 1867, the 18th October, 1867, and the 9th April, 1868, shall be and they are hereby revoked, from and after the 1st day of July now next ensuing, being the date fixed by proclamation of the Governor for the coming into operation of Ordinance No. 5 of 1868, and in lieu thereof, it is ordered that the Stamps to be used under Ordinance No. 12 of 1866, and Ordinance No. 5 of 1868, shall be from and after the last mentioned date :-
2. First, Adhesive Stamps of the respective values of 2 cents, 3 cents, 25 cents, 30 cents, 50 cents, $1, and $1.50; and, secondly, impressed or embossed Stamps of the respective values of 2 cents, 10 cents, 15 cents, 25 cents, 30 cents, 50 cents, 75 cents, $1, $1.50, $2, $2.50, $3, $4, $4.50, $5, $6, $6.50, $8.50, $10, $10.50, $20, $25, $40, $50, and a Stamp bearing the words "Adjudication Fee Paid.'
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3. All impressed Stamps shall be made and impressed in the Stamp-office in the city of Victoria, on either paper or parchment, and shall be of the form and size of the
"THE STAMP ORDINANCE, 1866." AND "THE STAMP (AMENDMENT) ORDINANCE, 1868,”
ORDINANCE No. 12 of 1866, AND OKDINANCE No. 5 or 1868.
ADDITIONAL ORDER
Made by His Excellency Sir RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL, in Council,
this 26th day of October, 1868.
The Stamp Duty payable on an instrument in writing under seal, ordinarily termed a Servant's Security Bond, shall henceforth be 50 cents, instead of as at present
10 dollars.
Approved in Council,
L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO, Clerk of Councils.
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RULES OF THE STAMP OFFICE.
THE FOLLOWING RULES OF THE STAMP OFFICE ARE PUBLISHED FOR GENERAL INFORMATION. 1.—The Office will be open for the transaction of business from 10 A.M. to 3 P.M.
every day (Sundays and authorised holidays excepted.)
2.--All application for Impressed Stamps must be made upon a printed form of
requisition, which will be supplied gratuitously.
3.-Adhesive Stamps can be obtained upon payment, without requisition. 4.-Payment for Impressed Stamps must be made on presentation of the requisition, which must be accompanied by the "goods," i.e., the paper, printed forms, parchment, or documents tendered with it for the purpose of being impressed.
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5.--Requisitions for Impressed Stamps will be executed in the order in which they are received, and when it is not possible to complete a requisition in a short time after it is put in, a time will be named at which the "goods" will be ready; in such cases a receipt on a printed form will be given for the requisition, and the
" will be delivered on presentation of that receipt only.
goods 6.--All "goods" and money given in change should be counted and examined before they are removed from the Counter, as no question as to wrong count of the "goods" or of the weight or goodness of the money will be entertained afterwards. 7.--For the present it is not intended to issue Impressed Stamps except upon
paper, &c., sent in by the Public.
8.-Spoiled Stamps on unexecuted Instruments.
1.-Allowance will be made for Stamps upon Instruments which
have been spoiled by some error in the writing;
2.—Or defaced by some accident;
3.-Or which have been rendered useless by some unforeseen circum. stances before they have been completed or rendered fit for their intended purpose.
9.—The claim for such Stamps must be made by Affidavit, by the owner,
Six Months after they have been spoiled or rendered useless.
10.--Spoiled Stamps on executed Instruments.
within
1.-Allowance will be made for Stamps on Instruments which are found unfit for the purpose originally intended by reason of any mistake or error therein;
2. Or which cannot be completed in the form proposed by the death
of any Person whose signature is necessary;
3. Or by reason of the refusal of any Person to sign the same. 11.—The claim for Stamps on executed Instruments must be made within Six Months after they shall have been signed, and the substituted Deeds, if any, must be produced duly stamped.
12.-Stamps on Bills of Exchange or Promissory Notes when signed by the drawer or maker will be allowed if they have not been out of his hands, and have not been accepted or tendered for acceptance.
13.-But Bills, &c., wherein any error or mistake has been made will be allowed also, although they may have been accepted or tendered for acceptance, provided the claimant produces the Bills which have been substituted for them within Six Months after the date of the spoiled ones.
14.-Applications for allowances for Spoiled Stamps will be entertained every
Friday, between Noon and 3 P.M.
15.-In cases where paper, printed or plain, or parchment, &c., is spoiled in stamping, it will be destroyed, the applicants finding at their own cost the additional paper, &c., required.
16.-The Stamps will be impressed upon any part of the Documents indicated, where it may be practicable with security to the Revenue, a point which in case of
dispute will be decided by the Collector of Stamps.
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17.-To prevent inconvenience, a few Blank Forms of Bills of Exchange or Bills supply any deficiency which may have occurred in counting, or to re-place any which of Lading may be left at the Stamp Office by persons requiring Impressed Stamps, to
have been spoiled in stamping.
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18.-All Impressed Stamps will bear the date on which they are impressed. 19.-The Officers of the Stamp Office are not responsible for any loss or damage which may occur to any Deed, Instrument, or Writing sent in for the purpose of being stamped, unless the same occurs wilfully, fraudulently, or by gross negligence.
F. W. MITCHELL,
Stamp Office, Hongkong, 4th October, 1867.
Collector of Stamp Revenue.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The following Order, by the Governor in Council, is published för general
information. By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office,
Hongkong, 21st November, 1868.
J. GARDINER AUSTIN, Colonial Secretary.
ADDITIONAL ORDER
Made by His Excellency Lieutenant-Governor Major-General JAMES ROBERT BRUNKER, in Council, under “The Stamp Ordinance, 1866,” and “The Stamp (Amendment) Ordinance, 1868," this 21st day of November, 1868. Whereas on the 9th day of Juue now last past, it was (amongst other things) ordered by the Governor in Council under and by virtue of the provisions in that behalf contained in "The Stamp Ordinance, 1866," that the Stamps for Bank Cheques under the 3rd section of the Schedule to "The Stamp (Amendment) Ordi- nance, 1868," should be impressed or embossed Stamps till further notice; and also that adhesive Stamps might be used for Bills of Exchange when drawn out of the colony, as specified in section 3 of the said Schedule, and under authority of the 11th clause of "The Stamp Ordinance, 1866,"; Provided always, that the Stamp on Bills of Exchange not exceeding $100 drawn out of the colony should be 25 cents until further notice; And whereas is has been deemed expedient by the Governor in Council that the orders so made as aforesaid, should, under the provisions of the aforesaid Ordinance, be altered and varied to the extent and in the manner hereinafter specified: Now, therefore, it is ordered by the Governor in Council as follows —
1.The Stamps for Bank Cheques under the 3rd section of the Schedule to "The Stamp (Amendment) Ordinance, 1868," need not be impressed or embossed Stamps, but may be adhesive Stamps.
2.The Stamp on Bills of Exchange not exceeding $100, drawn out of the
colony, shall be 30 cents, in lieu of 25 cents, as previously ordered.
L. D'ALMADA E CASTRO, Clerk of Councils.
Approved in Council,
J. R. BRUNKER, Lieutenant-Governor.
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DIGEST OF PENALTIES.
A DIGEST OF PENALTIES,
UNDER
"THE STAMP ORDINANCE OF 1866.”
Sec. 7.--For drawing or negotiating unstamped or insufficiently stamped Bills of Exchange, Promissory Notes, &c., a sum not exceeding Fifty Dollars, or a sum equal to ten times the value of the Stamp omitted to be used, if the sum so calculated ex ceed Fifty Dollars.
Sec. 10.-For not obliterating Adhesive Stamps when used by cancelling them
in a bona fide manner, a sum not exceeding Fifty Dollars.
Sec. 12. For not affixing the proper Adhesive Stamps on Bills of Exchange drawn out of the Colony, but payable in, before negotiating the same, or failing to cancel the same in a bona fide manner, a sum not exceeding Fifty Dollars.
Sec. 14. For drawing Bills purporting to be drawn in a set of two or more, and not drawing the whole number of the set, a sum not exceeding Five Hundred Dollars.
Sec. 16, c. 1.—If any Deed, Instrument, or Writing requiring to be stamped shall have been executed on paper not bearing the proper Stamp, upon the Collector being satisfied that the omission did not arise from any intention to evade payment of the prescribed duty, or to defraud the government, it may be stamped on payment of the proper Stamp Duty, and as penalty double the amount of the proper Stamp Duty, or of the amount required to make up the same, if it be brought to the Collector within six weeks from the date of its execution.
Sec. 16, c. 2.—If any deed shall have been executed on unstamped or insufficiently stamped paper, and brought to be stamped after six weeks of execution, but within four months of that date, treble the amount of the proper Stamp Duty, or of the amount required to make up the same, as the Collector may determine.
If brought after four months; twenty times the amount of such Stamp Duty, or
the amount required to make up the same, as the Collector may determine.
Sec. 23.-Refusing to attach a receipt stamp to any document given in receipt for money above Ten Dollars, when requested to do so, a sum not exceeding Fifty Dollars.
Sec. 27.-For not stating truly in every Instrument charged under the Schedule annexed to this Ordinance with ad valorem duty, the amount of Purchase Money, a sum not exceeding Two Hundred and Fifty Dollars.
Under clause 3 of section 1 of the "Stamp Amendment Ordinance, 5 of 1868," in default of placing a 3 cent stamp upon a receipt for money exceeding Ten Dollars, Fifty Dollars.
THE STAMP (AMENDMENT) ORDINANCE,
THE STAMP AMENDMENT) ORDINANCE, 1868 |
SIR RICHARD Graves MacDonnell, Knight. C.B..
Governor and Commander-in-Chief.
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An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the
Legislative Council thereof, to awend “The Stamp Ordinance, 1866."
[22nd May, 1868.7 Whereas it is expedient to amend "The Stamp Ordinance, 1866;" "be it enacted be the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as Allows:- I-The amendments hereinafter stated shall be male in “The Statap Ordinance,
1866," (1.) There shall be inserted in clause 6 of section XVI. after the word “satisfied," the words " by affidavit," and the word "shall.” shall be substituted for "may," in the same clause.
(2.) In section XX. there shall be substituted for the words "ten
dollars" the words "one dollar."
(3.) From section XXIII. there shall be omitted the words "if required," and for the words "case of refusal" there shall be substituted the words "default thereof."
II. It shall be lawful for all courts and Magistrates, and for the collector of Stamp Revenue, and all persons employed for the sale or distribution of Stamps, and they are hereby required to take possession of any deed, instrument, or writing as to which any offence or breach of the provisions of the laws relating to Stamps may appear to have been committed, and to deliver the same to be used in any prosecu- tion or proceeding in any court.
III-Section VI. of "The Stamp Ordinance, 1866," shall be repealed, but such repeal shall not affect any proceeding pending or any right that has arisen or may arise, or any penalty incurred or that may be incurred in respect of any transaction, act, matter, or thing done or existing prior to, or at the commencement of this Ordinance, under or by virtue of the said section.
IV.-For every deed, instrument, or writing, which shall be executed from the ume when this Ordinance shall come into force, and which shall be of any of the kinds specified as requiring Stamps by the Schedule annexed to this Ordinance, except as provided hereafter in section V. of this Ordinance, there shall be payable to govern. ment a Stamp Duty of the amount indicated in the said Schedule to be proper for such deed, instrument, or writing. Whenever the word "Schedule occurs in any part of "The Stamp Ordinance, 1866,” except section VI. thereof, it shall be read as having reference to the Schedule annexed to this Ordinance.
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V-The Governor in council shall for twelve months after the commencement of this Ordinance, bave power to declare by any order duly published in the Gazette, that till further notice, the Stamps required by the Schedule of "The Stamp Ordinance, 1866," shall be the Stamps to be used for any deed, instrument, or writing specified in such order, in lieu of the Stamps required under the Schedule to this Ordinance
annexed,
"The Stamp (Amendment) Ordinance, 1868," and shall commence and take effect on such day as shall hereafter
VI.-This Ordinance may be cited for all purposes as be fixed by proclamation under the hand of the Governor.
day of May, 1868.
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SCHEDULE.
LIST OF STAMP DUTIES,
Under Ordinance No. 5 of 1868.
Containing a specification of the deeds, instruments and writings, which require to be Stamped under this Ordinance, and of the proper Stamps for such deeds, instruments and writings.
1.-Agreement, or any minute or Memorandum of}
an Agreement not being under seal or of the nature of
an obligation for the payment of money, and not spe-
cially charged with duty under this Schedule, whether 50 cents. the same be only evidence of a contract or obligatory upon the parties, and Brokers' notes or any Document having reference to the sale or purchase of any Merchan- dize given by any broker.
NOTE.-If two or more letters are offered in evidence, to prove an Agreement between the parties who shall have written such letters, it will be sufficient if any one of such letters be Stamped as an Agreement.
EXEMPTION.
Label, slip, or memorandum containing the heads of
any Fire or Marine Insurance to be effected.
Memorandum, Letter, or Agreement made for or relat- ing to the sale of any Goods, Wares, or Merchandize, or to the sale of any Shares in any Public Company, not being a Broker's Note or Document given by a Broker.
Seamen's advance Note, or Memorandum or Agreement made between the Master and Mariners of any Ship for
Wages.
Emigration Contract. Passage Ticket.
2.-Bank Notes, or other obligations for the payment of money, issued by any Banker or Banking Company in the colony, for local circulation, and payable to bearer - on demand.
3.-Bills of Exchange, Promissory Notes or other obligations for the payment of money not included in the last preceding article, and not being Cheques or Orders for the payment of money at sight or on demand..
Bank Cheques payable on demand to any person, to
Bearer or Order, 2 cents each. BARDIS
NOTE.-Cheques drawn out of, but payable in the colony, to be treated as Bills of Exchange.
A Stamp Duty of two-thirds per cent.} per annum per $100 of the average value of such Notes in Circulation. To be collected monthly on a State- ment thereof to be furnished by each Banker or Banking Company to the Collector of Stamp Revenue, at the end of each month, and by: the Banker or the Manager or Agent and Accountant of such. Banking Company.
Not exceeding 8100, if drawn singly.
......$0.30
if in sete, for each part of a set....... .$0.16
Exceeding $100 and not exceeding $3,000–
If drawn Singly................................
$1 00
Exceeding 83,000---
If in sets, for each part of a set.
.80.50
If drawn Singly.....
$1.50
.80.75
If in sets, for each part of a set..
4.-Bill of Lading, or Ships' Receipts where Bills of 10 cents.
Lading are not used, for each part of every set.....
EXEMPTION.
Bills of Lading for any Goods or effects shipped by
any Government Officer on account of Government.
5. Bond or other obligation concerning Respon- 50 cents for every $1,000 or part of
dentia and Bottomry, and Average Statement or Bond where no Statement is drawn up.....
$1,000.
LIST OF STAMP DUTIES,
6.-Charter Party or any Agreement or Contract for
the charter or hiring of any sea going ship or vessel.
Vessel not exceeding.
| Exceeding 200 & not exceeding, 300
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$3.00.
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11 1,000 Every 100 Tons over 1,000 Tons, 80,50
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Copy Charter under... 200
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$1.00 each.
above... 200 $2.00 on Registered Tonnage.
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7.-Transfer of Shares or Stock in any Public Com- 50 cents for every $500 or fraction of
pany, scrip Certificate to be exempt.
8.-Power of Attorney.
$500.
$2.
9.—Note or Protest by any Commander or Master? 25 cents
of a vessel.
10.--Any Notarial Act whatsoever not otherwise
charged in this Schedule..
il.-Receipt or discharge given for the payment of ¡Money, or in acquittal of a debt paid in Money or other- wise, when the sum received, discharged, or acquitted exceeds $10....
EXEMPTIONS.
Letter sent by Post acknowledging the arrival of a Currency, or Promissory Note, Bill of Exchange, or any security for Money
Receipt or Discharge written upon or contained in any Bill of Exchange, Promissory Note, Deed or other instru- ment charged with duty under this Schedule and duly Stamped, and Receipts for pay and allowances of persons in the service of the government, whether Civil, Naval or Military.
12.-Probates and Letters of Administration with or without the Will annexed, (Administration Bonds- erempt)
13.-Conveyance, Assignment or instrument of any kind or description whatsoever not specially charged with duty under this Schedule, executed for the transfer for valuable consideration of any property, moveable or immoveable, or of any right, title, claim, or interest in, to, or upon the same...
$1.
3 cents.
The same ad calorem Duty as on a Conveyance, to be calculated upon the value of the Estate and effects for or in respect of which such Probate or Letters of Administra- tion shall be granted, exclusive of what the deccased shall have been possessed of or entitled to as a Trustee for any other person or persons, and not beneficially.
25 cents for every $100 or part of $100 |
of the consideration Money or amount secured up to $1,000, and $2 for every $1,000 or part of $1,000 after the first $1,000.
Deed or other instrument of gift, or of exchange or settlement where no money consideration or a merely $25.
passes................................................... ...............................
EXEMPTION.
nominal money consideration Transfer by mere Endorsement of a duly Stamped Bill of Exchange, Promissory Note or other negotiable instrument, or of a Bill of Lading, and transfer by Assign-| ment of a Policy of Insurance.
14.-Mortgage
Where in a Mortgage the sum secured is unlimited...
15.-Re-assignment of any Mortgaged Property. 16.-Letter or other instrument of Hypothecation, accompanying deposit of Documents of title to any
property.
17-Duplicate or counterpart of any deed, instru
ment or writing of any description whatever chargeable
with
duty
If
under this
Ordinance..
the duty chargeable on the original exceeds $1
but does
If
not
exceed $10..
the duty chargeable on the original exceeds $10,
but does not exceed $20.
If the duty on the original exceeds $20..
$1 on first $1,000 or part of $1,000,
and 50 cents on every other $1,000 or part thereof.
$25.
25 cents on every $5,000 or part of
$5,000.
$1.
The same duty as the Original when
$1.
$3.
such Duty does not exceed $1.
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Provided that such duplicate or counterpart Stamp shall be affixed upon the production of the original deed, instrument, or writing bearing its proper Stamp, and not otherwise.
18.-Lease, or Agreement for a lease, made for a term of years or for a Period determinable with one or more life or lives, or otherwise contingent, in considera- tion of a sum of money paid in the way of premium, fiue, for the like if without rent
19-Lease, or Agreement for a Lease, of any Land, House, Building or Tenement at a Rent without any pay.
any sum of money by way of fine or premium When the Rent for the year shall not exceed $250.
ment of:
Above $ 250 and under $500.
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21
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$2,500. $5,000..
for every additional $1,000 or purt Exempt, all Rentals under $50.
20.—Lease or Agreement for a Lease of any Land, House, Building or Tenement, stipulating for a Kent granted in consideration of a fiue or premium...........
Nore.-A Lease executed in pursuance of a duly Stamped Agreement for the same, shall require a Stamp of one dollar only, to be affixe·l on pro- duction of such Agreement.
The same ad valorem Stamp as on a
Conveyance. See Article 13.
1 Year & unter.
3 Years & under. Over 3 Year
$ C.
$ c.
$ c.
0.25
0.50
1.00
0.50
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2.00
1.00
2.00
4.00
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8.00
5.00
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20.00
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2.50
5.00
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A Stamp of value equal to
joint value of the Stamps for a convey- ance in consideration of the fine and a Lease for the Rent.
21.-Every instrument in writing under seul not otherwise specially charged with duty under this $10. Schedule
22.-Policies of Marine Insurance and every copy. 23.-Articles of Clerkship, or Contract whereby any person shall first become bound to serve as a Clerk, in order to his admission as an Attorney or Solicitor..
of
24.-Warrant of Attorney,
25.-Copartnership Deed or other Instrument of.. 26.-Cognovit and Arbitration award......
any
GENERAL EXEMPTIONS.
Any Deed, Instrument, or Writing of any kind what- soever made or executed by or on behalf of Her Majesty or of any Department of Her Majesty's Service, or whereby any Property or Interest is transferred to, or any Contract kind whatsoever is made, with Her Majesty, or any person for or on behalf of Her Majesty, or any such Department as aforesaid. NOTE.-The foregoing exemption does not extend to any Deed, Instrument, or Writing executed by the Registrar of the Supreme Court, as Official Administrator, or by a Receiver appointed by any Court; or to any Deed, Instrument, or Writing rendered necessary by any Ordinance or by the order of any Court; neither does it extend to a sale made for the recovery of an arrear of Revenue or Rent or in satisfaction of a Decree or Order of Court, in any of which cases the purchaser shall be required to pay in addition the amount of the
to the purchase money requisite Stamp.
10 cents each $50.
$5.
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LAND REGULATIONS OF BRITISH CONCESSION, SHAMEEN. I-That the limits wherein these Regulations are binding be the British
Concession, Shameen.
IL-In order that due provision should be made for the better order and good government of the Settlement, and also proper arrangements for the making of Roads, milding Public Jetties and Offices, and keeping them in repair, and for cleansing lighting, watering, and draining the Settlement generally, and establishing a watch or police force therein, paying the persons necessarily employed in any Municipal office or capacity, or for raising money by way of loan for any of the purposes aforesaid, Her Britannic Majesty's Consul shall, as soon after the first day of July in each year, or when it may appear to him needful, or on the requisition of the Renters of Land, certain number of them or others entitled to vote on the terms hereinafter mentioned, convene a meeting of such persous to devise ways and means of raising the requisite funds for these purposes; and at such meeting it shall be competent to the said persons or a majority of them in public meeting duly assembled, to declare an assessment in the form of a rate to be made on the said Land or Buildings, and it shall also be competent for the said persons, or a majority of them as aforesaid, to impose other Rates and Taxes for the purposes aforesaid, in the form of dues on all goods landed in, shipped from, or passing through the British Concession. III-And be it further ordered, that the said Land Renters and others as aforesaid, in Public Meeting duly assembled, under and in accordance with the provisions of the preceding article, shall appoint, in the mode hereinafter provided, an executive Committee or Council, to consist of not more than five persons, for the purpose of levying the rates, dues, and taxes hereinbefore mentioned, and applying the funds realized from the same for the purposes aforesaid, and for carrying out the Regulations now made and such Committee, when appointed, shall have full power and authority to levy and apply such rates, dues, and taxes for purposes aforesaid, and shall have power and authority to sue for all arrears of such rates, dues, and taxes, and recover the same from all defaulters in the Court under whose jurisdiction
defaulter may be.
such
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IV-When in pursuance of these Regulations the above-mentioned Committee or Council shall be duly elected, all the power, authority and control conferred by the Bye-Laws now sanctioned and annexed to these liegulations, and all the rights and Froperty which by such Bye-Laws are declared to belong to any Committee or Counci! as aforesaid, shall vest in and absolutely belong to such Committee or Council. and to their successors in office, and such successors as are duly elected, and such Com- mittee shall have power and authority from time to time to make other Bye-Laws for the better enabling them to carry out the object of these Regulations, and to repeal, alter, or amend any such Bye-Laws, provided such other Bye-Laws be not repugnant to the provisions of these Regulations, and be duly confirmed and published; and provided also that no Bye Law made by the Committee under the authority of these Regulations, except such as relate solely to their Council, or their ficers or servants, shall come into operation until passed and approved by Her Britannic Majesty's Consul and Minister and the Ratepayers in special meeting ssembled, of which meeting and the object of it ten days' notice shall be given.
V-And whereas it is also expedient that due provision should be made for the editing of the accounts of the said Committee or Council, and for the obtaining the approval and sanction of them by the Ratepayers in Public Meeting duly assembled, heit ordered that the said audit, and the said sanction and approval, shall be made at the Annual Public Meeting convened by Her Britannic Majesty's Consul as herein before mentioned.
VI-Be it also further ordered, that any penalty, or forfeiture, or fees on licenses, provided for in the Bye-Laws framed under the authority of these Regulations, and unposed in pursuance of such Bye-Laws, may be recovered by summary proceedings
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before the proper authority, and it shall be lawful for such authority upon conviction to adjudge the offender to pay the penalty or incur the forfeiture as well as the costs attending the conviction, as such authority may think fit. All fines and penalties levied under these Regulations, and the Bye-Laws framed and to be framed under them, shall be carried to the credit of the Committee or Council in diminution of the general expenditure, authorised by the provisions of these Regulations,
VII. Be it further ordered, that it shall competent for Her Britannic Majesty's Consul, at any time when it may appear to him needful, or at the requisition of ten of the Ratepayers, seven of whom must be resident within the British Concession, to call a public meeting, giving ten days notice of the same, setting forth the business upon which it is convened, for the consideration of any matter or thing connected with the Municipality. All resolutions passed by a majority at any such public meeting, on all such matters aforesaid, shall be valid and binding on the whole of the Ratepayers, provided not less than two-thirds of the Ratepayers present be resident within the British Concession. At such meeting Her Britannic Majesty's Consul shall take the chair; and in his absence then such Ratepayer as the majority of voters present may nominate, who shall report to Her Britannic Majesty's Consul the resolutions passed at such meeting for bis occurrence and approval, and unless such approval be officially given, such resolution shall not be valid and binding. Provided always, that a term of ten days shall elapse between the date of the resolution and the signification of approval by Her Britannic Majesty's Consul. In all cases in which Ratepayers, in public meeting assembled, and herein provided, decide upon any matter of a Municipal nature not already enumerated, affecting the general interest, any person considering himself prejudiced in property or interests by the resolution, may within the period of ten days aforesaid, represent his case to Her Britannic Majesty's Consul for his consideration. After the expiration of the term of ten days, the Consular approval, if signified, shall be binding.
VIII.-That members of the Municipal Council shall be elected by ballot at the annual meeting to be held in July, as set forth in Rule No. I.; and that at all meetings the following persons shall alone be entitled to vote, viz.:-Land Renters, recognised Agents acting for Firms who are Land Renters, and persons holding formal authority to act as proxies for absent Land Renters, and all Tax-payers of Ten Dollars and upwards.
IX.-That on or before the second day of July in each year it shall be competent for every person entitled to vote for the election of Council to send in writing, to H. B. M.'s Consul, the names of four duly qualified persons whom he wishes should act for that year, attaching his signature to the memorandum, and stating the number of votes he is entitled to. The names of all the persons proposed will then be published or exhibited in the Consulate Office, and any one refusing to serve must notify such refusal to H. B. M.'s Consul on or before the 10th day of July. On the day appointed for the election, should the members proposed exceed the required number, a ballot will take place as set forth in the foregoing Regulation.
X.-All Renters of Land within the Settlement having paid all taxes due, and whose annual payment of assessment on Land, or Houses, or both, shall amount to the sum of Dollars ten and upwards, shall be qualified to be members of the Municipal Council.
XI.—In case of a vacancy or vacancies occurring in the Committee or Council during the Municipal year, a meeting shall be convened for the purpose of filling up such vacancy or vacancies, in terms of Rules 8 and 9.
XII. The Council shall enter upon their office as soon after the accounts of the retiring Committee shall have been audited and passed at the annual meeting in July and at their first meeting the new Council shall elect a Chairman, Secretary, and Treasurer. In the temporary absence of the Chairman, the members present at any meeting of the Council shall elect their Chairman for such meeting.
XIII. The Council may from time to time appoint such officers and servants as they think necessary for carrying out these Regulations, and fix the salaries and allowances of such officers and servants, and may pay the same out of the Municipal
Fands,
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may discontinue or remove any of them, from time to time, as they shall think fit. XIV. The Council shall administer the Municipal Funds for the public use and benefit at their discretion, in accordance with object and views expressed at a general meeting; and a statement shall be drawn up by them at the end of each year for ich the Council has been elected, showing the nature and amount of the receipts 2nd disbursements of the Municipal Council Fund for that year, and the said statement shall be published for general information at least ten days before the general meeting is convened.
XV.-No matter or thing done, or contract entered into, by the Council, nor any matter or thing done by any member thereof, or person whomsoever, acting under the direction of the Council, shall, if the matter or thing were done, or the contract entered into bona fide for the purpose of executing these Regulations, subject them or any of them personally to any action, liability, claim, or demand whatsoever. And any expense properly, and with due authority, incurred by the Council, member thereof, or person acting as last aforesaid, shall be borne and repaid out of rates levied under the authority of these Regulations.
XVI.—All transfers of land in the British Settlement at Shameen shall be made by the parties to the transfer, or by their representatives duly authorized for that purpose, in the presence of an officer of Her Britannic Majesty's Consulate, aud shall be registered in the said Consulate within one month of such transfer under a penalty not exceeding $100.
XVII.-No transfer of land in the settlement at Shameen to a subject or citizen of any other power excepting Great Britain, shall be valid, unless he shall previously undertake, in writing in his own name, and with the official certified consent of his national authority, to conform to the terms of the lease granted by Her Britannic Majesty, and to obey all regulations made or sauctioned, or which bereafter may be made or sanctioned, by Her Britannic Majesty's Minister, for the peace, good order, and goverament of the said settlement.
BYE-LAWS ANNEXED TO THE LAND REGULATIONS FOR THE FOREIGN SETTLEMENT, SHAMEEN.
1.-The entire control and management of the Bridges, all public Buildings, Sewers, and Drains within the limits of these Regulations, and all Sewers and Drains in and under the Roads, and all the works and materials thereunto belonging, whether made at the time of the passing of these Regulations, or at any time thereafter, and whether made at the cost of the Council or otherwise, shall vest in and belong to the Council.
2-No Sewer or Drain shall be made, or any Building be erected over any Sewer belonging to the Council, neither shall any Branch Drain be carried into any of the Sewers or Drains above vested in the Council, without the consent of the Council first obtained in writing. And if after the passing of the Land Regulations any Sewer or Drain be made, or any Building be erected, contrary to the provisions berein contained, the Council may demolish the same, and the expenses incurred thereby shall be paid by the person so offending, and shall be recoverable as damages. 3-All Sewers and Drains within the limits of these Regulations, whether public or private, shall be provided by the Council, or other persons to whom they severally belong, with proper traps or other coverings, or means of ventilation, so as to prevent stench.
The expense of maintaining and cleansing all Sewers not hereinbefore provided for, shall be defrayed out of the rates and taxes, to be levied under Article I. of the Land Regulations.
5.-It shall not be lawful to erect any house in the Settlement, or to re-build
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any house in the Settlement, without at the same time constructing a covered Drain or Drains of such size and materials and at such level, and with such fall as to the Council shall appear necessary and sufficient for the proper and effectual drainage of the same and its appurtenances, in terms of Bye-Laws No 1 and 2: the Drain ot Drains so to be constructed shall communicate with such Sewers as the Council may direct. And whosoever erects or re-builds any house or other building, or constructs any Drains contrary to this Bye-Law, shall be liable for every such offence to a penalty not exceeding Two Hundred and Fifty Dollars.
6.--No person shall be allowed to erect a Matshed on the settlement, without the permission of the Municipal Council, and any person erecting such Building shall be liable to a fine not exceeding One Hundred Dollars.
7.—The Council, and none other, shall be surveyor of all Highways within the limits of the aforesaid Regulations, and within those limits shall have all such powers and authorities as any surveyors of highways are invested with in England.
8.-The management of the Streets, Bunding, and Jetties, and the laying out and repairing thereof, shall be vested in the Council; and all materials, implements, and other things provided for laying out and repairing said Streets, Bunding, and Jetties, shall belong to the Council.
9.-The Council may stop up any Streets, and prevent all persons from passing along and using the same during the construction, alteration, repair, or demolition, of any Sewer or Drain in or under such Street, but must allow access to houses. 10.-Every person who wilfully displaces, takes up, or makes any alteration in the pavement, flags, or other materials of any Street, Bunding and Jetties, under the management of the Council, without their consent in writing, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding Dollars Twenty-five.
11.--When any Building materials or other things are laid, or any hole made in any of the Roads, whether the same be done by order of the Council or not, the person or persons causing such hole to be made, shall, as his own expense, cause a sufficient light to be fixed in a proper place on or near the same, and continue such light every night from sun-setting to sun-rising while such materials or hole remain; and such person shall, at his own expense, cause such materials or other things and such hole to be sufficiently fenced and enclosed until such materials or other things are removed, or the hole filled up, or otherwise made secure. And every such person who fails so to light, fence, or enclose the same, shall for every such offence be liable to a penalty not exceeding Dollars Twenty-five.
12.—If any Building, Wall, or Hole, or other place near any Street, be for want of sufficient repair, protection, or enclosure, dangerous to the passengers along such Street, the owner shall repair the same, or, in default the Council shall cause the necessary repairs to be made, and the expenses of the same shall be recoverable as damages from the owner. If the owner cannot be found, or any agent who will undertake to act for him, within the limits of these Regulations, the Council, after giving twenty-eight days' notice of their intention to do so, by posting a printed or written notice in a conspicuous place on such Building, or on the land on which such Building stood, or other place, may take such Building or Land and sell the same by Public Auction under Consular injunction, and from and out of the proceeds of such sale re-imburse themselves for the outlay incurred, and shall restore any overplus arising from such sale to the owner of such property on demand; but should the proceeds of such sale not cover the expenses incurred, the Council shall have the same remedies for compelling the payment of the balance as are hereinbefore given to them for compelling the payment of the whole of the said expenses.
13. The Council may give notice to the owner or occupant of any house or other building to remove or alter any porch, shed, projecting window, step, or any other obstruction or projection, erected or placed against, or in front of, any house or other Building, within the limits of these Regulations, and which is an obstruction to the safe and convenient passage along any Street; and such owner and occupant shall, within fourteen days after the service of such notice upon him, remove such obstruction, or alter the same in such manner as shall have been directed by the
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18. No cattle or ponies shall be allowed to go loose at any time, er da le tethered in the middle or front reads of the settlement: (the Canal road only being available for tethering cattle and ponies between the hours of 5 x Manib yu under a penalty not exceeding Five Dollars.
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19-All Chinese passing through or in the Settlement after six y winter, and eight P.M. in summer. until daylight, must be provided with lighted lanterns, under a penalty of being handed to ÏÌ‚B.M.'s Consul for transmission to the Native Authorities.
20.-It shall be lawful for any officer or agent of the Council, and all persons called by him to his assistance, to seize and detain any person who shall have committed any offence against the provisions of these Bye-laws, and if he be a Chinese subject, or a foreigner belonging to some nationality not represented by a Consul, to hand him to H.B.M.'s Consul, to be disposed of according to law offender be a citizen or subject of some nationality duly represented, he shall be handed over to his own Consul for adjudication.
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HISTORICAL NARRATIVE.
(From Dungstedt's “Historical Sketch.)
A few years later (1560) Europeans settled at Macao; by what right is a topic of contention. At the arrival of the Portuguese, there issued from innumerable islands, rocks, and creeks, along the sea-coast of China, a daring set of adventurers, less intent on exercising lawful industry, than bent on plundering peaceful, industrious inhabitants. Merchants were peculiarly molested, because a successful attempt on them insures to the chief and his crew a valuable booty, to be shared among them. That the trade might be uninterrupted, the Portuguese determined to annoy and exterminate, if possible, this race, almost as vexatious to them as to the Chinese. Having cleared the gulf of China of the free-booters who had infested it, the Portuguese sought a quarrel with a Regulo, or potentate of the island Heang-shan. The grievances that provoked the war are not men- tioned, nor is it known when the hostilities began, how long they continued, nor even the particulars of their termination. It is maintained that, after a vigorous resistance, the Regulo was subdued, the island conquered, and the victors put in possession of their share. As no covenants or treaty of peace ever appeared in public, it remains an absolute in- possibility to determine the ultimate limits of the conquest the Portuguese pretend to A rock towards the south-east, constituting the boundary of
have made on that island. Heang-shan, was of course comprehended in the conquest. On that, the Portuguese fixed their abode, being particularly well suited for the carrying on of domestic and foreign trade. A town, called Cidade nome de Deos de Macao, rose by degrees on the peninsula; not by the grace and concession of any of the Emperors of China, for such is denied, but by the success of the chivalrous arms of Portugal. The above is copied from a ministerial memorandum, drawn up fifty years ago. It is contradicted by the subsequent assertion. Chinese chronologists have noted down that in the 30th year of the reign of Kea-tsing (1535), one foreign vessel appeared, and in 1537 another, on the coast of the gulf of China. The merchants required and obtained permission to land and to raise a few huts for temporary shelter, and the drying of goods which had been damaged on board the ships. That this accommodation was granted between 1522, when the Portuguese were driven from San-chan, and the time taken up for negociating a reconciliation, is by no means unlikely. During the lapse of eighteen or twenty years (1537 to 1557), the Chinese and the Portuguese met again, it seems for trade, either at Tamaoor Lampacao. In 1557 the parties concurred at Macao, because the Mandarins permitted strangers to fix them- selves on a desert island then known by the denomination of Amangao. Such is the state- ment Fernao Meudes Pinto has given us in his peregrinations or voyages. This asser- tion is not contradicted by any of the contemporary authors who wrote of the first exploits of their countrymen in China. The gentlemen to whom the terms could not be unknown were Jesuits, for a few of them came hither in 1562. With them, Mathew Ricci, coming (1528) from India, spent some time, and must have been intimate; being a man of learn- ing and of an enquiring spirit-a Jesuit—he naturally enough asked on what footing foreigners stood in respect to China. Had they been settled by right of conquest, he would undoubtedly have recorded it in the Italian Journal he kept, the cause of the war, and the articles of pacification. Trigaulo, who gathered from it many interesting notices, contained in “Christiana expedition apud Sinas," adverts merely to the im- pression the fleet under the command of Fernao Peres d'Andrade left on the mind of the Mandarins, whose duty it was to protect the coast from foreign invasion. Jolin de Barros, who never saw Asia, wrote three Decades of Asia, a work continued by Diogo de Couto; both of these historians speak of the progress the Portuguese made in India and
China. Alvaro Semedo, who governed in 1621 a Roman Catholic Church at Nan- chang-foo, in his " Relatione de la China," and Manoel de Faria e Souza, in his ̈ Asia Portuguesa," allege that the Portuguese obtained permission to inhabit Macao be- cause they had cleared the island of pirates. Diogo de Couto came in 1556 to India; he had served eight years in the army, visited Lisbon, and came back to Goa. Phillipe I, proclaimed in 1581 King of Portugal, commanded him to continue De Barros' Asia, making him Royal Chronicler of India. The silence of Diogo, an accurate engineer, proves evidently the fallacy of the above allegation. According to De Guignes, in his Voyage to Pekin," the pirates were vanquished in 1563, an epoch at which the Por tuguese had been six years in possession of Macao. The mighty sea-rover, denominated by him and others Chaug-si-lao, kept the provincial capital, Cauton, besieged, when Kea-tsing was on the throne according to other writers during the reign of Kaug- he. May not Chang-si-loa be a corrupt and foreign pronunciation of Chin-chi-lung." the father of Chin-chin-kiang or Hoxinga, by changing Chiu to Chung, chi to, lung to lao? For in the historial abridgment by Duhalde of these sovereigns, the men with whom either one or the other must have been contemporary is not mentioned. However, one of these two Emperors rewarded, it is pretended, the Portuguese, by whose valour and victory the siege of Cantou was raised, the pirates destroyed, and their chief slain, granting to them in perpetuity the island on which Macao is actually standing. But as no authentic act of donation ever was produced, the cession, resting merely upon traditional presumption, shall we not be justified in agreeing with Frigauld, that the Chinese, having by degrees overcome the panic at first sight excited by the tremendous Portuguese ships, petitioned the emperor to grant to foreign merchants a residence on a peninsula, or rather a rock, constituting a part of a greater island. "To this proposal the sovereign acceded, stipulating that the strangers should pay Of this opinion are both the
tribute or ground-rent, and duties on their merchandise." Chinese and Tartars. Neither a fewchops-official documents-suspended in the Senate house, nor those two hundred which Jesuits translated at Goa, by command of Mar- quis de Alorso, who governed Portuguese India in 1744, prove anything to the con- trary; we therefore willingly side with La Clede, who, in his "Historia de Portugal," avers "the Portuguese demanded leave to move to a desert island, called Macao, is was granted, and sometime after liberty to built a few houses;" and we likewise agree with the opinion of Dom† Alexandre da Silva Pedroso Guimaraens, bishop of Macao, who, as acting governor, wrote (1777) to the Senate, "by paying ground-rent, the Portuguese acquired the temporary use and profit of Macao, ad libitum, of the emperor." Unwilling to deprive its natural subjects of the advantages of trade, and still more unwilling to expose them to the violence of rapacious and unruly guests, the government resolved (it appears from the concession) to place the strangers in such situation that they may feel their dependence on the empire, without forcing it a third time to the ex- termination of men and the destruction of property. In my opinion it is safer to ascribe the possession of Macao to imperial bounty rather than to conquest; for the conquerors would be compelled to give up the place were the Chinese government but to command the tradesmen, mechanics, and servants, to leave off their business and retire, and there upon issue an order not to furnish the inhabitants with provisions. The first settlers where in a less precarious state, if it be true that many of them held, in the conquered part of Heang-shan, landed property, for its produce rendered them (the Portuguese) independent of China so far as the supply of the necessaries of life went. By whose band the earth was cultivated is not mentioned in the memorandum we have noted; but it blames the owners for supineness, in not strenuously opposing the Chinese when they began to encroach upon the domain of Portugal. The intruders appropriated to them- selves not only the whole of this fruitful island, but they likewise drew across the isth- mus that separates it from Macao, a wall-it was constructed in 1573 for the protection of the country, and to prevent their children from being kidnapped. In the middle of the
The Dutch and Spaniards, established on the island of Formosa, knew the man under the name of Ikon Equan,
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barrier is a door of communication, called porta do cerco, guarded by a few Chinese soldiers and an officer, that no stranger may pass this boundary. In the beginning the door was, according to Dominio Navarette, opened but twice a month, then, every fifth day for selling provisions to the secluded; at present it opens at daylight.
Topographical Description.
Macao is situated 22 deg. 11 min. 30 sec. north latitude, and 113 deg. 32 min. 30 sec. east of Greenwich, on a rocky peninsula, renowned, long before the Portuguese settled on it, for its safe harbour; then by foreign writers denominated Ama-ngao, port of Ama, in reference to an idol temple near the Bar Fort, the goddess of which is called Ama. In 1583 the Portuguese gave it the name "Porto do nome de Deos," and "Porto de Amacao," the etymology of Macao: later it was also called "Cidade do nome de Deos do porto de Macao," at present it is Cidade do Santo nome de Deos de Macao. The Mandarins, I am told, designated the use of the port by the character Gauo-mun, and that of the city by Gaon-king; Aou-mun is a provincial pronunciation of Gaou. mun. This hilly settlement is dependent on the Keang-shan-keen, city of the third class, in the province of Kwang-tung, but separated from the large island Heang-shan by a wall drawn across the neck of land from shore to shore. Two principal ranges of hills, one running from south to north, the other from east to west, may be considered as forming an angle, the base of which leans upon the river or anchoring place. Its level ground, with the exception of a few habitations of European architecture, is filled by the Bazaar, and a great many Chinese shops for tradesmen and mechanics: the traveller's attention is roused by a variety of public and private buildings, raised on the declivities, skirts, and heights of hillocks. On the lofty mount eastward, called Charil, is a fort, enclosing the hermitage of Na. Sra. de Guia; westward is Nillau, on the top of which stands the hermitage of Na. Sra. de Penha; entering a wide semi- circular bay, which faces the east, on the right band we have the fort San Francisco; on the left, that of Na. Sra. de Bom Parto; and before us, on landing, a broad, airy, spa- cious quay—“Praya Grande," and inany pretty houses, among which is the residence of the Governor, and that of the Minister. To the east of the town is a field, “Campo," which stretches itself out to the very boundary wall that closes the prison of Macao. The territory is scarcely eight miles in circuit. Its greatest length, from north-east to south-west, being under three miles, and its breadth less than a mile.|| The Portuguese estimate the Peninsula at a little more than a league in length; its mid-breath at less than a mile. The first geometrical delineation of Macao was undertaken and executed by Manoel de Agote, chief factor of the royal Spanish Philippine company in China, and Mr. De Guignes the younger. You will find Agote's map inserted in the collection of drawings appertaining to the "Account of the embassy of Lord Macartney to China," In 1808, by command of the
and that of De Guignes in his "Voyage a_Peking.' Supreme Government, a map was made by Joaquim Bento da Fonceca. The peninsula is nearly surrounded by sheets of water, subject to the influence of ebb and flood from the gulf of China. The regular monsoon-winds, the streams of salubrious water, burst- ing out at the foot of Charil and Nillau, and the benefit of a well stocked Bazaar, render Macao wholesome and comfortable, though now and then--but seldom-it is shaken by the convulsive motions of earthquakes; it is oftener visited by dreadful typhoons, a species of hurricanes.
* Tratados de la Monarchia de China, 1676.
In books and manuscripts, we have found it designated by the expressions Gau-kin. Ghao-kim, Gau-min. Chief Judge.
i Embassy of Lord Macartney, by Sir G. Staunton.
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THE PHILIPPINES
MANILA
Manila, the Capital of Luçonia, the largest of the Philippine Islands, and the rincipal settlement of the Spaniards in the East, is in lat. 14 36° 8° N.. hơn 120€ 33 E. Population about 100.000, of whom from 4,000 to 5.000 may be Europeans Manila is built on the shore of a spacious bay of the same name, at the mouth of s river navigable for small vessels a considerable way into the interior. The smalle: Cass of ships anchor in Manila roads. in five fathoms, the north bastion bearing N. 57 E.. the fishery stakes at the river's mouth N. 18 E.. distant about a mile, but large ships anchor at Cavite, about three leagues to the southward, where there is a good harbour, well sheltered from the W. and S.W, winds. The arsenal is at Carite; which is defended by Fort St. Philippe, the strongest fortress on the islands. The city is surrounded by a wall and towers, and some of the bastions are well furnished with artillery.
:
Though situated within the tropics, the climate of the Philippines is sufficiently temperate the only considerable disadvantage under which they labour in this respect being that the principal part of the group come within the range of the typhoons. The soil is of very different qualities: but for the most part singularly fertile. They are rich in mineral, vegetable, and animal productions. It is stated in a statistical account of the Philippines, published at Manila in 1518 and 1819. the entire population of the islands amounted to 2,249.852, of which 1,376,222 belongs to Lugonia. But this return is believed to have been under-rated; and the population having increased very con- sidered in the interval, it is now estimated at about 4,000,000. These are some, but not many, Chinese settlers, and but few Europeans. The natives are said to be the most active, bold, and energetic of any belonging to the Eastern Archipelago. These people," says a most intelligent navigator, "appear in no respect inferior to those of Europe. They cultivate the earth like men of understanding, are carpenters, joiners. swiths, goldsmiths, weavers, masous, &c. I have walked through their villages, and found them kind, hospitable, and communicative; and though the Spaniards speak of and treat them with contempt, I preceived that the vices they attributed to the Indians ought rather to be imputed to the government they have themselves
-(Foyage de M. de la Perouse, c. 15.)
established."
The trade of the Philippines has increased very rapidly of late years. The imports principally consist of cotton stuffs and yarn, iron and hardware, woollens and wor steds, machinery, wines and spirits, furniture, arms and ammunition, apparel, slops, &c. By far the largest portion of the imports is supplied by the United Kingdom: but owing to the high discriminating duties in favour of goods imported on Spanish a large proportion of the British goods are brought in Spanish ships from
bottoms, Singapore. In 1856 the imports of British produce were valued at £1,575,000, and the exports of Philippine produce on British account at £1,370,000. The Americans export produce worth about £1,000,000; and as their imports are a mere trifle, the Manila has also an extensive and
increasing trade with China, Singapore, Java, Australia, India, &c. balance is extinguished by drafts on London.
The quantity of rice and paddy shipped to China from the islands cannot be ascertained with any degree of exactness; what goes from Manila is very small, because, before arriving there, is has, by its transport expense added to the price at which it is obtained in the districts where it is produced, which, of course, prevents its being shipped from the capital. Probably, however, about a million coyans, each of which, one with another, weighs about a China picul, or 1333 lbs., may be annually exported. The export is regulated by the supposed scarcity or abundance of food in the country.-M'Micking's Manila, p. 270.
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THE PHII IPPINES
The Philippine Islands contain an area of 52,647 English square miles, with a population, in 1864, of 2,679,500 souls, of whom about one-fourth are slaves. The islands, more than 500 in number, are divided into 27 provinces, 13 of which are ou the isle of Luzon, 4 on the isle of Negros, 3 on Panay, and 3 on the isle of Mindanao. In 1870, the receipts were £2,451,918; expenditure, £2,475,009; deficit £23,091. The chief articles of produce of the Philippine Islands are sugar, hemp, and tobacco. The total exports to Great Britain in 1869 were of the value of £1,406,892, and the imports of British produce of £832,981. Of these imports the value of £748,952, or considerably more than two-thirds, was represented by cotton fabrics.
Port Charge.-Ou foreign vessels, 2rs. per ton, and one-half on such as neither load nor unload cargo, besides fees amounting from $5 to $15, according to the size of vessels.
IMPORT DUTIES.
The following Tariff was published by the Manila Custom-house on the 1st July 1871, but is subject as regards Spanish vessels to the following order, which came into force on the some date :-
"All Foreign merchandize, imported into the Philippine Islands in Spanish vessels, from the 1st July, 1871, until the same date of 1873, will get the benefit of a reduction on the Customs Tariff of 25 per cent.; of 20 per cent. from the 1st July, 1873, to same date of 1875; of 15 per cent. from 1st July, 1875, to same date of 1877; and of 10 per cent. from 1st July, 1877, to same date of 1879; after which they will pay the same duties as those levied on Foreign goods imported in Foreign vessels."
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IMPORT TARIFF.
DA QA
Description of Goods.
Number of Sec.
Per
Duties. Peretur. Con's.
Apparatus for lighting, except such as are in-
cluded in other sec. of this Tariff Apothecary Ware and Chemicals, not prohibited
by sanitary regulations
k... 97
(1)
(1) (g)
do.
12 Ad valorem 10 per cent, $4
(2)
132
$2
10 per cent.
Ditto, cut and stained in all kinds of pieces and
Arms, side, and blades for ditto (see Steel and
Iron knives.)
Bags Mat
87
Each
0 02
Bags of Jute, Flax, Cotton, &c., will pay on the
material they are made of
Beer and Cider
.(b)
Boats, such as open boats, &c., not exceeding eight
metres in length
...(1)
32
Candles, sperm, paraffine and stearine Cartridges of every description, with or without
(b)
0 10
Litre Ad valorem 10 per cent.
0 25
Kilogram
117
beads. de.
stones
Gold in Jewels, with or without Pearls or precious (8) (2) Gold. Silver and Platinum manufactured inte other articles. except coins, bars, plates, paste
12:
**
61
*
charges, and Percussion caps
19
Cast Iron in common manufactures... Ditto, Fine or polished, with porcelain or metal
...(a) (d)
mountings
Cheese of all kinds
...
Cocoa of all kinds
Copper, Yellow Metal, and Zinc in sheets, nails
and wire
(a)
5 20 25
do. 39 100 Kilogs.
0 35
India Rubber ware
(-)
(AY Hats and Caps of all kinds, trimmed or untrimmed. Iron and Steel in Knives. Forks. Razors. Peu
knives, Scissors and other articles.
29
Fack
"
(3)
44
Kilogram
1
36
do
1
2
23 23
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3 25
40
85
Kilogram do.
0 07
0 30
15
do.
0 30
23
do.
0 25
Lard or Butter
Leather, Tanned
Copper in all kinds of common ware, whether
varnished, gilt, or not, and such as are com posed of alloyed common metals mixed with copper or otherwise...
(b)
24
do.
0 75
Cotton for wicks, twisted and other kinds, and
woven wicks
11
do.
0 30
Musical Instruments
Ditto, spun and twisted (see yarns). Clothing, Ready-made (i) (see Textures.)
and tubes
....... (1) (17) Ditto, in common manufactures, lined with zine.
lead, or painted or varnished
Ditto in fine or polished manufactures, or covered
with Porcelain or metal
Ditto, Patent and Morocco...
sections of this
Tariff
...
Ditto manufactured, articles not specified in other Matches of wax, pasteboard or wood... Mirrors, framed or unframed (sec Glass)
of all
classes
...
Oils, Mineral, Rectified, Petroleum and Benzine.(5) Oil Cloth of all descriptions
Iron, wrought in bars, sheets, wire nails, screws
41
100 Wilan
4
50
...
35
3 BAR IS
42
222
.....(a) (d)
(a)
43
(b)
59
79
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(1)
Ad valorem Kilogram
10 per cent
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Number
Description of Goods.
Duties.
Opium
of Sec.
(g)
63
Ornaments or trinkets of Amber, Jet, Gold-stone or Coral, except such as are gold or silver
mounted
(b)
Paints, dry or prepared with oil
Ditto, Composed of other materials
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(b)
27
64
Paper for printing
Ditto for writing, lithographing &c. Blank Books
and Pasteboard
65
...
Ditto cut in all shapes or sizes
66
~*~* 88
do.
4
do.
do.
do.
9898 99
12 50 7 50
0 06
0 15
Per Kilogram 6 00
Pesetas. Cents
GEOGRAPHICAT
Description of Gi
Umbrellas and Parasols, cotton
Ditto, paper
...
Vermicelli. Soup mixtures of all kinds
Vessels, wooden, of all sizes up to 100 tons
one cubic metre capacity, except those em- braced in sec. No, 32°
Ditto. from lûl to 300 tons capacity
AND STAT
Fach do.
2 10
Kilogram
(.)
Metric-Ton
do.
do.
☺☺
0 25
50
Ditto, 301 tons and upwards, and Iron vessels of
all sizes
(·)
do
32 80 2500
30
do.
Paper Hangings, figured, sized and lustrous, and
Ditto, Repaired in the Archipelago
(c)
31
do.
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those painted or printed for box lining, book binding, and other uses
67
Ditto with gold, silver, wool or crystal
68
Ditto of all kinds for packing, sand-paper, and
card board...
69
Perfumery of all kinds
(a)
Preserved Meats of all kinds in Tins or Bottles,
and sweets
25
(b)
Provisions, in pickle, salted or smoked.
&c....
(b)
Purses, Pocket and Note Books, Cardcases, Etuis,
(1)
* NE NO **
do.
do.
do.
77
26
98 99 99
0 20
0 80
0 10
Wax
do.
0 50
do.
0 35
do.
0 20
Pewter (see Copper)
Ribbons will pay according to their respective
textures.
Shoes, high, of cloth or Leather, Boots and Buskins. Ditto in low shoes of all descriptions
16 17
Pair.
do.
1 00 0 65
Silver in Jewellery, with or without Pearls or Pre-
cious stones
(b) (e)
Slippers of all kinds
82 Hectogram
Pair.
18
3 50
0 25
Steel in bars, plates, and pieces, such as Carriage
springs and the like
(a)
1 100 Kilogs.
6 50
...
Ditto in Needles, Pens, and other articles not
specified elsewhere in this tariff
83 Ad valorem 10 cent.
per
Yarns made of Hemp, Flax, or Jute
Ditto of Cotton of all numbers and yarn for weaving.
Yellow Metal (see copper)
Watches of all descriptions...
...
Wax Work, candles, &c.
Wines, effervescing
Ditto of other descriptions. Worsted or Woollen varn
(b) (h) (i) (j)
Blonds, Edgings, Laces and Crochet-Work Close Woven, plain, drilled, fancy woven. un bleached, dyed, printed or colored up to 25 threads, including warp and weft in the square of 6 millimetres...
Diaphanous, such as Muslins, Jacconets, Bishop
Lawns, Victoria Lawns, and Gauzes, up to 30 threads...
4 t
Kilogram
47
do.
50
S6 Ad valorem
10 per cent.
20
Kilogram
20
(b)
21
do.
(名)
121
Litre
(金)
122
do.
49
Kilogram
Cotton Fabrics.
99
Kilogram
3 50
Ditto from 26 to 40 threads inclusive Ditto from 41 threads and upwards
92
93
do. do.
50
0 80
94
do.
1 10
(b)
2
Spirits, common, and Aniseed spirit of all kinds.(b) Ditto, mixed, as Liqueurs, &c.
8
Kilogram
Litre.
2 20 0 20
Ditto from 31 threads and upwards
Quilted Textures and Piques..
(b)
do.
0 40
Velvets, Plushes, and the like
Tobacco, leaf
90
Ditto, manufactured
89
Kilogram do.
1 00
Hosiery
95
do.
96
do.
97
do.
98
do.
100
do.
23223
ERASA
12 00
Thread, Silk or Floss-silk, twisted or untwisted, of
one or more threads
18
do.
Tea of all descriptions...
(b)
91
do.
Tin Plates...
50
do.
Tin Ware
(a)
51
do.
Toys, of all kinds
(b)
54
do.
7OOOO
7 50
25
08
25
55
Ditto 37 threads and upwards
Trimming, silk, or silk mixed with other materials,
the proportion of these not exceeding 50 per cent. of the weight
(ƒ)
74
do.
7 00
9
Ditto of wool, or wool mixed with other materials,
cont.
of the weight
Ditto of other descriptions...
threads
the proportion of these not exceeding 50 per
Thread of hemp, flax, or jute twisted, of 2 or more
Umbrellas and Parasols, silk
Ditto, alpaca
75
...
76
(1)
46
225 22
do.
do.
3 50 2 00
70
do. Each do.
0 75 1 50
0 70
Hemp, Flax, and Jute Fabrics.
Fabrics, Plain, up to 14 threads in the
millimetres..
Ditto from 15 to 36 threads
Ditto Twilled, Figured and Damasked
Ditto in Laces, Edgings and Crochet-work... Hosiery...
Fabrics of Wool and Hair.
(b) (h) (i) (1) Fabrics, Plain, Twilled or figured, such as Alpacas,
Merinos,
Muslin-delaine, Barege, Damasks,
Lastings, and such like
Ditto covered with long or short hair, such as
Baizes, Flannels,
Buntings, Blankets, &c.
Ditto in Plushes, Velvets or Carpetings
(b) (h) (i) (j)
square of 6
101
do.
0 50
102
do.
103
do.
104
do.
105
do.
106
do.
4 00
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10
80
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107
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108
do.
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109
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Chränge of all lands. ncluding wire rope
Aurbors of all sizes, and chains for vessels.
THE PHILIPPINES.
376
Ditto of Horse-hair.
Description of Goods.
Fabrics in Cloths, Italian cloth, Mantle cloth, Ker-
seys, &c.
Ditto in Hosiery, &c.
Number
of Sec.
Per
Duties.
Pojatra, Cupply
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2 00
111
do.
4 00
112
lo.
2 50
Silk Fabrics.
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and
Tollow
Metal
Sheathing
and
nais kon 2144
(b) (h) (i) (j)
including Plushes and Velvets
Plain twilled or gured of all kinds and qualities
113
do.
12 00
Flonds, Laces, Edgings, &c., of silk or floss silk.
114
do.
20 00
115
do.
11 00
Silk Hosiery, &c.
...
izery
...
Silk Elastic webbing, even if mixed with other
materials and machine-made water proofs. (b)
116
do
2 00
valuable i used generally as personal
Table sets “vajillo
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NOTES ON IMPORT TARIFF.
(a) From the gross weight of the following merchandize, the following percentage
will be deducted for Tare:-
Steel in cases
Tin Plates in cases
Iron, copper, or composition nails, kitchen utensils and the}
like, in casks
Crockery in Boxes and Barrels
Do.
in Crates
Perfumery
Glass-ware and crystal-ware in cases and barrels
Do.
Do.
sheet Iron. Tholes and Rivets for halls of vessels, and Fo Spurs of all kinds for vessels
mazus of wrecked vessels, or sach
purposes
them as waO USELÕES
Caling
The terms Jewelery and ornaments embrace all sma.... articles of lavany ca either on account of the work or materials they may be composed at
ornaments by both sexes. embraces all utensils of fine metal for the use of churches va
- domestic purposes.
(ƒ) In calculating the weight of trimmings and such like, the materials on which the goods are rolled or made up will be excluded, except when they are of textile fabrics. when they are of wood, pasteboard or similar substances, a tare of 10 per cent, will be deducted from the weight. including boards, etc.
(9) Opium is prohibited as an article of import, except such small quantities as by Druggists, and what the government contractor of this. Archipelago
consumption.
10 per cent.
10
11
may be
required
20
may
import
for
the
30
}}
16
"}
25
"}
40
""
20
**
in crates (b) Lard or Butter, Cheese, Fish, Cocoa, Flour and Farinaceous Substances will pay duty on their gross weight, that is, including the weight of the packages in which they come.
Hardware and Cutlery, Wax, Sperma, Paraffine and Stearine Manufactures, Mineral and rectified Oïs, Petroleum and Benzine, Paints Ary and with oil, Matches, Toys and Ornaments will pay duties on their weight, including the inside packages they come in; excepting Dressing cases, Etuis &c., which will pay duty in accordance with Sec. No. 83 of the Tariff.
the inner
packages.
Preserved Provisions, Sweets and Tea will pay duty on their weight, including Bottles containing Spirits, Liqueurs, Wines and Beer will pay according to Sec.
No. 120, on their approximate weight.
In all kinds of fabrics and laces the weight of the paper, tape or pasteboard that may come with them will be included in levying the duties, excluding however the pasteboard or other Boxes which form the inside packages of the goods.
(c) There are included in the duties noted in Sec. 28, 29, 30 and 31, sundry articles which may be considered to be necessary for the outfit, rigging, or use of vessels, taking into consideration their classes and conditions, which will be exempted
from
duty. The duty levied on vessels imported from a foreign country, will be in accordance with the certificates of measurement of the Master-mariners of the Port, the local Marine Authorities, and the Chief of the Custom-House, or a substitute of his, and iu conformity with the Admiralty orders of 31 December, 1868, and 16th June, 1869.
Vessels that may be repaired in the Archipelago and made in every respect seaworthy, will pay duty in the following proportion, should their owners wish to obtain the Spanish flag for them; the value of the repaired vessels is to the duty as per tariff according to their tonnage, as their value before they were repaired is to the fourth term of the duties which should be imposed. Nevertheless, if the difference
Chemical and medicinal products will be examined on arrival, in accordance with
the Sanitary Laws.
(k) Mixed fabrics will pay duty subject to the following rules:
1st.
Flax, wool. and silk goods which contain a mixture of cotton, only in one part
the warp or weft
of
2nd.
will be valued as if linen, wool, or silk, without mixture. Fabrice of wool and silk, or floss silk, the warp or weft of which is of any
materials, will pay 1 5th part as silk and 4 5ths as wool.
the of these
3rd. Fabrics of flax and silk, the warp
or weft of which is of any one of these materials, and fabrics of cotton and silk whose warp or weft is all of cotton, will pay duty
on 4 5ths of the weight as linen or cotton, and en 1 5th as silk.
4th. Fabrics of flax and silk. the warp or weft of which is of any one of these
materials. will pay on 3 5ths of the weight as wool, and on 2 5ths as linen.
5th. Fabrics of flax and cotton, the warp or weft of which is all of cotton, will pay on the half of the weight as cotton, and on the other half as linen, according
respective sections.
to their
oth. Fabrics that have all the weft or warp of flax. wool, silk or cotton and contain in their other part, weft, or warp, as the case may be, two or more of these materials, will pay according to the foregoing rules, considering them as composed of fax, wool, silk or cotton and of the material which in their other part pays the lowest duty.
7th. Hosiery, etc., laces and edgings of mixed materials, will pay duties on the
material that predominates.
(Ready-made clothing, except Hosiery and such like, will pay duty on their total reight on the material their exterior is composed of, with the addition of 50 per cent. Ready-made clothing will be considered to be not only such articles as are completely finished, but also such as are partly sown or stitched.
Hand or machine-sown fabrics, and such as are mixed with tinsil or previous metals, will pay the duties corresponding to the fabric, with the addition of 0 per cont, The parties interested in goods upon which duties are levied ad valorem, will state their values, and if the Custom-House should not conform thereto, considering them too low, they will put a value upon them as the Custom-House officials think proper, and should the parties interested not agree to such a valuation, the Custom- House will take over the goods at the values put upon them by the owner, plus 10 per cent.
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In this case the Customs officials will pay the duties on the valuation put upon them by themselves and not agreed to by the consignees, and the profit or loss on the salo of the goods will be for account of such officials; the Government advancing the
necessary funds as a recoverable loan.
When the owners of the goods agree to the increased valuation put upon them
by the Custom-House, they will pay a half more duty on such increase.
In despatching various kinds of merchandize, upon which duties are levied ad valorem, some of which have fixed duties in the tariff, care will be taken that such as are despatched in this way will not pay a lower duty than that fixed for the next lower quality of the same kind.
(m) Fire arms of all kinds are prohibited, without a previous order from the
Superior Civil Government.
EXPORT DUTIES.
The following Tariff was published on the 1st July, 1871, by the Manila Custom-
House :-
EXPORT TARIFF.
Number
Duties.
Description of Goods.
Per
of Sec.
1
Hemp and Cordage.
100 Kilos. do.
Pesetus. Cents. 1 00
5 00
Indigo
do.
0 50
Liquid Indigo
do.
0 25
Rice
do.
0 70
Sugar...
do.
1 50
Coffee
do.
0 20
Dye Woods.
NOTES ON Export Tariff.
All goods and produce will be shipped free of duty, excepting such articles as are included in the Export Tariff and Tobacco, which will be subject to the following laws.
1st. Every merchant who may have to ship produce included in the tariff will
have to extend a document in the following form:-
Per (Here fill in the name and flag of ship)
Mr.
word of
Permit No.
or name
merchant of this place, declares upon his
and under his responsibility that (in the Boat No. ) now
of such boat) he sends off to be shipped on board of (ship or vessel loading in this port and bound for (destination) the following:
Number of packages.
1500 100 5
In bulk without Emen-
dation (Shipper's seal.)
Bags Bales Cases
Description of packages.
with
""
Their contents. 34,500 kilog. Sugar. do. Hemp. do. Indigo. 200,000 do. Sapanwood. 187 (Signature of Shipper).
Manila...
This document will serve as a permit from shore to the vessel for which the produce is destined, and it will bear the same number as that issued by the consignee in loading each vessel.
The document will be delivered to the Custom-House guard on board the ship, before commencing to unload the Boat, to enable him to check the number of packages.
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When the unloading of the boat has been effected, the guard will note at foot of the permit his conformity to the contents or otherwise; and in this latter case he will note any difference that may result, and these documents will be sent daily to the Custom-House.
the Custom-House, or Officials delegated
2nd. Only the Chiefs of by them, hare the power or authority to compare the weight of the contents of the boat with the permits they carry, according to rule the first; and this only when they think it necessary for the protection of the interest of the Government.
the
This comprobation of the weights will be effected on board of the vessel for which goods are destined, and should a difference result such as will amount to five per cent., a fine will be imposed upon the owners amounting to the value of such difference. No fine will be imposed for differences not amounting to five per cent.
3rd. If any one should attempt to ship any produce which pays duty under the name of any article that pays less, or no duty, the guard will detain the goods on board the vessel, giving immediate notice of the same to the next higher official, who without loss of time will report the act to the chief of the Custom-House.
The fraud once proved will subject the delinquent to a fine equal to the value
of the goods he attempted to ship.
4th. Tobacco, so long as the article is a monopoly of the Government, will be shipped with permits issued for the purpose by the chief of the Custom-House; which he will issue in view of the documents presented by the exporter, verifying the legal acquisition of the Tobacco as is ordained by superior orders.
5th. At all times, when they may judge it convenient, the Chiefs of the Custom- House may call upon the Masters or Consignees of vessels, to show the original bills of lading and manifests, in order to compare them with the permits issued.
In case of a difference amounting to five per cent resulting between the export declaratory notes, the ship's manifests, the bills of lading, and the above named permits, the owners of the goods will be liable for a fine of double the market value of such difference.
6th. The Custom-House Officials will see, on pain of being held personally responsible, that none of the seven articles comprized in the Export Tariff are shipped in any of the open ports of these Islands, without being accompanied by the permit referred to in article first.
7th. When a vessel is loaded, the Captain or the Consignees will present her manifest in duplicate at the Custom-House, and this manifest must state the number of packages, their marks, numbers, and contents, the quantity and kind of all the goods shipped by each shipper, and it is also obligatory that all shippers should present declaratory notes in duplicate, giving the same particulars as the manifests, of all goods shipped, whether subject to export duty or not; this latter being equally necessary with the former for the purpose of statistics.
Entrepôt Duties. One per cent. ad valorem, and 1 per cent. at the exportation, with 1 per cent. more if the commodities should be kept there more than twelve months, two years being the longest time allowed for it.
Port and Custom-house Regulations. Vessels newly arrived are not to com. municate with the shore until having been visited by the port captain's boat; and within thirty hours after this visit, a manifest must be presented, stating packages, marks, and numbers, but the vessel may retain her cargo ten days in transit without eating whether for consumption or deposit, and without being obliged to land or in- curring any charge on the same, except gunpowder, pocket pistols, and forbidden arms. Terms for Sales and Purchases.-Sales and purchases made, duty paid, at three to five months credit, occasionally at 23 per cent. discount for prompt payment, and
bought for cash.
exports
are
The principal currency of Manila consists of Spanish dollars of 8 reals and 96 grains, but South American dollars are also current. The weights in use are the Spanish Ib., which is nearly 2 per cent. heavier than the English; the arroba=25!||
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English lb., nearly; the quintal=102 lbs. ; and the picul of 5 arroba or 11 cwt. English. The coyan is a measure for rice, &c., varying from 96 to 135 lbs.
Considering the great fertility and varied productions of the Philippines and their peculiarly favourable situation for carrying on commerce, the limited extent of their trade, even with its late increase, may excite surprise. This, however, is entirely in consequence of the wretched policy of the Spanish government, which persevered until very recently in excluding all foreign ships from the ports of the Philippines, confining the trade between them and Mexico and South America to a single ship!-even ships and settlers from China were excluded.
Provisions," says La Perouse, "of all kinds are in the greatest abundance here, and extremely cheap; but clothing, European hardware, and furniture bear an excessively high price. The want of competition, together with prohibitions and restraints of every kind laid on commerce, render the productions and merchandise of India and China at least as dear as in Europe!" Happily, however, this miserable policy, the effects of which have been admirably depicted by M. de la Perouse, has been materially modified of late The events of the revolutionary war destroyed for ever the old colonial system of Spain; and the ships of all nations are now freely admitted into Manila and the other ports in the Philippines. An unprecedented stimulus has in conse- quence been given to all sorts of industry; and its progress will no doubt become inore rapid, according, as a wider experience and acquaintance with foreigners make the natives better aware of the advantages of commerce and industry, and disabuse them of the prejudices of which they have been so long the slaves.
years.
ILOILO.
OBSERVATIONS ON THE TRADE AND NAVIGATION OF ILOILO. By Nicolas Loney, Esq., Her Majesty's Vice-Consul.
Vessels bound from Manila, or from Ports to the Northward, during the N.E. monsoon, safely proceed towards Iloilo by the Maricaban passage, between Luzon and Mindoro, and through the chain of Islands off N.E. coast of Panay. For this route, the charts of the Spanish “Commission Idrogafica," complied by Don Claudio Monteros in 1857, would be useful. After passing Tablas and Remblon (which latter island possesses an excellent barbour, much frequented by coasting vessel as a port of refuge and for obtaining supplies,) steer for the group of small islands called collectively the "Silanga," lying off the N.E. of Panay, a good mark for which is the high conical island called Pan de Azucar, or Sugar-loaf, which is visible from a great distance. In approaching these islands during the N.E. monsoon, vessels should pass between the islets of Jiutotolo and Zapato-Major, and during the S.W. monsoon more in towards the Panay shore, between Olutaty and Zapato-Minor. After leav ing the Zapato, the course is to the south of the Gigantes, and the channel through the group of islands is generally entered between Snogon and Calanan, from whence the route is continued between Culebre and the main Pan de Azucar and Malangaban, inside Ygbon Bulabadingau and Taguban hau islands. Through the passage between these islands there is safe anchorage. The Estancia affords ex- cellent anchorage and shelter at all times, and at Apiton opposite Yogubanham, there In the S.W. monsoon there is safe an. chorage between Pan de Azucar and Sobrero islands, and in the bay of Malagonoes. is also good anchorage in both monsoons. In the N.E. monsoon, in addition to the Estancia and Apiton, there is good anchor- age under Pan de Azucar, in the small bay or indent looking S.E. At Bacauan, or La Conception, is the residence of the Commandant of the district, and from hence ssistance and supplies may be had, if needed, and at the place marked Apiton (Aguada) on the charts, good water is easily obtainable.
The broader channel between the islands of Panay and Negros, although apparently good, and though formerly adopted by several ships bound to Iloilo, is now found not to be safe, there being large patches of shoal water with coral, imperfectly surveyed, Vessels have occasionally touched in
extending off the Batayan and Negros shore.
coming through this passage, and it should not therefore be taken.
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between Panay and Negros, the best course is to steer direct for the highest land After passing Tagubanhan and Apiton, and emerging into the broad channel risible on the island of Guimarás, care being taken to clear Pepitas rocks, which lie some distance off the shore and are awash.
io
are
Leaving the Calabazas islets and Patitas, the route after making the small
block-house near Banate, is due south, until a group of seven between the N.E. end of Guimaras and Panay shore, called the Siete Pecados,
On opening the channel between Guimaras and Panay
remarkable
rocks, which
Siete
the
sighted. Pecados to bear W. N., steer direct for the passage Panay shore. This course will clear the Iguano Bank, Pecados, with 1 to 2 fathoms of water on it, and Point Dumanges to the N.E., the shoal water off which extends to a considerable distance.
and
getting
the
between
these
rocks
and
lying
to the
S.E.,
of the
The lead is a good guide through the Siete Pecados channel, giving 41, 7, 8, 11 and 15 fathoms until the Pecados are passed to the southward, when the water deepens to 18 and 19 fathoms. The channel between these rocks and Guimarás is not good. On passing the Pecados the south shore should be kept on board, to avoid the shoal water on the Panay side. When the fort, which is half-a-mile to the west of the river Iloilo, bears W.S.W., steer for it, anchoring as convenient in 10 to 12 fathoms, a little more than a quarter of a mile off shore to the eastward of the river. Though the northern passage just described is safe and convenient in the northerly monsoon, and is always used by coasters in both seasons, strangers will probably prefer the route along the west coast of Panay, making Iloilo from the south. This route should always be adopted in the S.W. monsoon. Making the western coast of Panay from the Mindoro Strait, this coast, comprising the province of Antique, should be closed, as the westernly monsoon is not very regular, and does not often blow strongly between the Cuyos Island and Panay, or the north of Basiland. It may be approached with afety anywhere to the southward of the islands of Barbatan and Maralison, which latter has a reef to the east and west. Barbatan, which is very steep, affords, with Lipata (under this latter point), the only available anchorage on the Antique coast during the S.W. monsoon, but in the N.E. monsoon the harbour of San José de Buena Vista is quite safe, and affords good supplies of provisions and water, being not unfrequently visited by whalers for that purpose.
The south coast of Panay is free from dangers till near the town of Otong. The coast of Guimaras to the north of Point Balingasag, or the north of Port St. Anna, is likewise safe. This port is capable of admitting vessels of large tonnage, and affords shelter under almost any circumstances. The Bights along the coast have deep water, and vessels can work close in shore, or from point to point, with perfect safety; but generally there is no good anchorage, as the coast is steep and the holding ground
good.
not
In passing the S.W. point of Panay during the night, the island of Juraojurao and Nogas should not be closed, as both have reefs round them to the southward. When clear of these islands on rounding the S.W. point of Panay, vessels may safely steer N.E. by E. 33 miles without any danger, but after running that distance they should heave-to during the night, or if the night is very clear run towards the Panay shore, keeping the lead going, and when the water shoals, anchoring till daylight, as by keeping over to the Guimaras shore (particularly in the N.E. monsoon) they will find no anchorage, and will lose ground.
It is necessary to follow the above instructions carefully, because the Otong Bank extends more to the west and south-west than is shown on the present published chart, and is yearly increasing, and also because the tide ruus very strongly on both sides of it. With the flood tide (against the N.E. monsoon), vessels can easily work up in short tacks under the Guimaras shore.
The Otong Bank in 8 miles in length N.E. and S.W., by 2 miles N.W. by W. and S.E. by E. at its broadest part. It is of fine sand, with depths varying from 2 to 3 fathoms. The edges is some places are steep, and the others shoal gradually. To avoid this danger, vessels should, after closing Guimarás, keep that shore on board, and be careful in beating up not to close the Panay side to less than four fathoms, and not to stand further from the Guimarás shore than half-a-mile, until Point Cabalig bears S. by
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W. § W. 24 miles, when they should stand across and open the port of Iloilo clear of Point Bondulan, which kept open will clear the Guimaras Bank lying between Points Cabalig and Bondulan. Care should be taken in standing across towards the toug Bank, to tack as soon as the water shoals to 6 fathoms, as the Bank is steep-to. After passing Point Bondulan, the fort should not be brought to the eastward of N.E. by E.
Guimaras Bank, with 11 feet on its shoalest part, extends in a N.E. by E., and S.W. by S. direction a little over a mile, and about three cables east and west, with deep water all round. The S. W. head bears from Point Bondulan N.N.E. ¦ E. !! niles. Iloilo fort kept open of Point Bondulan will clear this danger.
These banks have been recently surveyed, in May 1864, by the officers of the Spanish" Hydrographical Commission," but the charts have not yet been published. At foot is a note of the position in which it is intended to place two lights, which will greatly facilitate the entrance from the south.
Anchorage The island of Guinarás forms in front of Iloilo a sheltered passage, running nearly N. and S. about 25 miles broad, with deep water and good holding ground except immediately to the eastward of the fort, where the sand is loose. In d-channel the depths exceed 20 fathoms. The best anchorage, least exposed to the sweep of the tides, is to bring the Bantay (guard house) off the south point of the river to bear N.W. N., with the fort bearing S.W. W. Here a ship is out of the strong- est current, with the advantage that cargo-boats can easily reach her and returo.
TO ENTER THE RIVER AND INNER PORT OF ILOILO.—Although the land is low at the entrance, the mouth of the river is distinctly seen, being marked by beacons on the port and starboard sides. On entering keep the port beacou close on board, after pas- sing which and the watch house, steer for the second point on the starboard hand, giving it a berth of forty feet. The east bank, with 16 feet, should be closed to this distance until after the first sharp bend of the creek is passed, and then the port side to the wharf or anchorage. Vessels usually ing up at jetties, about half-a-mile to one mile from the entrance, and have the advan..., if of moderate size, of discharging and The creek, or rather tidal river, varies
loading at the stores without employing boats in breadth from a quarter to half-a-mile, and reaches beyond the town of Melo, meet- ing the sea again near Iloilo; and another branch continues as far as Otong.
DEPTH OF WATER.-The depth at the entrance to the river is nearly 5 fathoms at low water, but at a short distance within it decreases to 15 feet, and then deepens. The rise of tide being 6 feet, vessels drawing 16 to 18 feet can easily enter and leave; and when, as is proposed, a dredging-machine is employed to clear away the mud which has been allowed to accumulate, vessels of almost any draught will be able to complete Ships of 1,000 tons register have loaded part cargoes alongside the jetties. The custom is to load to 14 to 15 feet in the river and complete loading outside. their cargo inside. TIDES.-It is high water at Iloilo, full and change, at noon; springs rise 6 feet. The stream runs at springs quite 3 to 4 knots through Iloilo. The flood sets to the northward. The ebb tide to the north of Petitas rocks runs to the eastward, but to the south of these rocks, to the westward.
VARIATION ON THE COMPASS.—1° 15′ E.
PROVISIONS AND WATER.-Fresh beef is cheap and good. Good water can always be got a little to the north and south of the village of Pilator Buena Vista, on Guimaras. It is best to take up the casks at high water on the beach, and with the aid of the natives fill them, so as to be ready to go off with the following tide. Take care to leave a little before high water, so as to be sure of reaching the ship, as the tide changes suddenly, and runs down with great strength.
REPAIRS. The river of Iloilo affords considerable facilities for heaving vessels down. At the fine port of Santa Anna, on the island of Guimarás, is a building-yard. PORT DUES.-On foreign vessels arriving and leaving in ballast, 12 cents per ton, with cargo inward or outwards, or both, 25 cents per ton. Payment at one port clears for the other open ports of the Philippines in a proportional extent.
MANIFEST.—This document must be certified by the Spanish Consul at the port from which the vessels arrive, under penalty of a fine of $200. This also applies to
wessels în ballast.
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MONEY-The currency is confined to Spanish and South American dollars and
subdivisions, and to the $1, $2 and $4 gold pieces coined in Manila.
WAGES.-The wages of labourers for shipping average from 25 to 30 cents a day;
Carpenters 31 to 50 cents; Caulkers 37 cents.
WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. The picul of 110 catties, or 140 lbs. English; the quintal of 4 arrobas, or 100 lbs. Spanish, equal to 100 lbs. English; the arroba of 25 lbs. Spanish.
PRODUCE. The country around Iloilo and in the province and island generally is very fertile and extensively cultivated. It is well peopled, and there are towns of 18, 20, 30, and 40 thousand inhabitants in the vicinity and interior, and on the coast. Nearly all tropical productions can be grown on the island, but the chief articles of export are Sugar (which is at present the most important), Tobacco, Sapanwood, Rice, Hides, Hemp (imported coastwise), Cattle, and a large quantity of available native textures, made of the fibre of the pineapple leaf, Silk, Hemp, and other fibres. These textures are mostly for native consumption in the Archipelago. The quantity of sugar has increased rapidly since the opening of the port to direct foreign trade. At the fine island of Negros the planting of cane is being much extended. The bulk of the plantations is owned by natives, but a number of Europeans have formel estates thero, and several steam mills for crushing cane have recently been erected. Very productive land, in good positions, is to be had; labour is not scarce; convey. ance of produce by sea to the Iloilo market is safe and expeditious, and intending planters could scarcely fine a more eligible district.
COFFEE. Thrives well, but is not yet cultivated on a scale to allow of export.
Additional Note, regarding Lighthouses to be erected at Iloilo. Two lights are to be placed by the Spanish Government in the south-western entrance of the port of Iloilo. One, a third-class light, is to be situated at the point marked G in the plan of the recently made survey, a mile S. 30 W. of point Cabalig. The other will be of the fourth-class, and placed at the fort in the port of Iloilo. The point marked G is of rock, about 160 bears N. 85 W. consequently any vessel entering the port from the south, by keeping well in to the Light before taking up that course towards the north, will completely clear the bank.
The south point of Panay bears from the point G, S. 70 W. The light of the Iloilo fort determines by its position all the S. E. edge of the Otong bank, and by it vessels can pass safely through all the channel formed by the bank and Guimaras coast, with the advantage that it (the light) gives, also the N.W. edge of the Guimarás bank, in the south of Point Bondulan. On this account a vessel beating up should not lose sight of the south light.
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W. Į W. 24 miles, when they should stand across and open the port of Iloilo clear of Point Bondulan, which kept open will clear the Guimaras Bank lying between Points Cabalig and Bondulan. Care should be taken in standing across towards the toug Bank, to tack as soon as the water shoals to 6 fathoms, as the Bank is steep-to. After rassing Point Bondulan, the fort should not be brought to the eastward of N.E. by E. Guimarús Bank, with 11 feet on its shoalest part, extends in a N.E. by E., and S.W. by S. direction a little over a mile, and about three cables east and west, with deep water all round. The S.W. head bears from Point Bondulan N.N.E. E. 1. miles. Iloilo fort kept open of Point Bondulan will clear this danger.
These banks have been recently surveyed, in May 1864, by the officers of the Spanish “ Hydrographical Commission," but the charts have not yet been published. At foot is a note of the position in which it is intended to place two lights, which will greatly facilitate the entrance from the south.
Anchorage —The island of Gnimarás forms in front of Iloilo a sheltered passage, running nearly N. and S. about 23 miles broad, with deep water and good holding ground except immediately to the eastward of the fort, where the sand is loose. In mid-channel the depths exceed 20 fathoms. The best anchorage, least exposed to the sweep of the tides, is to bring the Bantay (guard house) off the south point of the river to bear N.W. ↑ N., with the fort bearing S.W. ¦ W. Here a ship is out of the strong- est current, with the advantage that cargo-boats can easily reach her and return.
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TO ENTER THE River and InneR PORT OF ILOILO.--Although the land is low at the entrance, the mouth of the river is distinctly seen, being marked by beacons on the port and starboard sides. Ou cutering keep the port beacon close on board, after pas- sing which and the watch house, steer for the second point on the starboard hand, giving it a berth of forty feet. The east bank, with 16 feet, should be closed to this distance until after the first sharp bend of the creek is passed, and then the port side to the wharf or anchorage. Vessels usually ing up at jetties, about half-a-mile to one mile from the entrance, and have the advant..., if of moderate size, of discharging and loading at the stores without employing boate The creek, or rather tidal river, varies in breadth from a quarter to half-a-mile, and reaches beyond the town of Melo, meet- ing the sea again near Iloilo; and another branch continues as far as Otong. -The depth at the entrance to the river is nearly 5 fathoms at
DEPTH OF WATER.- low water, but at a short distance within it decreases to 15 feet, and then deepens. The rise of tide being 6 feet, vessels drawing 16 to 18 feet can easily enter and leave; and when, as is proposed, a dredging-machine is employed to clear away the mud which has been allowed to accumulate, vessels of almost any draught will be able to complete their cargo inside. Ships of 1,000 tons register have loaded part cargoes alongside the jetties. The custom is to load to 143 to 15 feet in the river and complete loading outside. TIDES.—It is high water at Iloilo, full and change, at noon; springs rise 63 feet. The stream runs at springs quite 3 to 4 knots through Iloilo. The flood sets to the northward. The ebb tide to the north of Petitas rocks runs to the eastward, but to the south of these rocks, to the westward.
Variation on THE COMPASS.—1 15/ E.
PROVISIONS AND WATER.-Fresh beef is cheap and good. Good water can always be got a little to the north and south of the village of Pilator Buena Vista, on Guimaras. It is best to take up the casks at high water on the beach, and with the aid of the natives fill them, so as to be ready to go off with the following tide. Take care to leave a little before high water, so as to be sure of reaching the ship, as the tide changes suddenly, and runs down with great strength,
REPAIRS.—The river of Iloilo affords considerable facilities for heaving vessels down. At the fine port of Santa Anna, on the island of Guimarás, is a building-yard. PORT DUES.-On foreign vessels arriving and leaving in ballast, 12 cents per ton, with cargo inward or outwards, or both, 25 cents per ton. Payment at one port clears for the other open ports of the Philippines in a proportional extent.
MANIFEST.—This document must be certified by the Spanish Consul at the port from which the vessels arrive, under penalty of a fine of $200. This also applies to
vessels än ballast.
GEOGRAPHICAL AND STATISTICAL.
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MONEY-The currency is confined to Spanish and South American dollars and
subdivisions, and to the $1,
gold
$2 and $4 pieces coined in Manila. WAGES.-The wages of labourers for shipping average from 25 to 30 cents a day;
Carpenters 31 to 50 cents; Caulkers 37 cents. WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. The picul of 110 catties, or 140 lbs. English; the quintal of 4 arrobas, or 100 lbs. Spanish, equal to 100 lbs. English; the arroba of
lbs.
Spanish.
PRODUCE.-The country around Iloilo and in the province and island generally
is very fertile and extensively cultivated. It is well peopled, and there are towns of
These
18, 20, 30, and 40 thousand inhabitants in the vicinity and interior, and on the coast. Nearly all tropical productions can be grown on the island, but the chief articles of export are Sugar (which is at present the most important), Tobacco, Sapanwood, Rice, Hides, Hemp (imported coastwise), Cattle, and a large quantity of available native textures, made of the fibre of the pineapple leaf, Silk, Hemp, and other fibres. textures are mostly for native consumption in the Archipelago. The quantity
of sugar has increased rapidly since the opening of the port to direct foreign trade. At the fine island of Negros the planting of cane is being much extended. The
bulk of the plantations is owned by natives, but a number of Europeans have forme estates there, and several steam mills for crushing cane have recently been erected. Very productive land, in good positions, is to be had; labour is not scarce; convey. ance of produce by sea to the Iloilo market is safe and expeditious, and intending planters could scarcely fine a more eligible district.
COFFEE.-Thrives well, but is not yet cultivated on a scale to allow of export.
Additional Note, regarding Lighthouses to be erected at Iloilo.
Two lights are to be placed by the Spanish Government in the south-western entrance of the port of Iloilo. Oae, a third-class light, is to be situated at the point marked & in the plan of the recently made survey, a mile S. 30 W. of point Cabalig. The other will be of the fourth-class, an 1 placed at the fort in the port of Iloilo. The point marked G is of rock, about 160 bears N. 85 W. consequently any vessel entering the port from the south, by keeping well iu to the Light before taking up that course towards the north, will completely clear the bank.
The south point of Panay bears from the point G, S. 70 W. The light of the Iloilo fort deterinines by its position all the S. E. edge of the Otong bank, and by it vessels can pass safely through all the channel formed by the bank and Guimarás coast, with the advantage that it (the light) gives, also the N.W. edge of the Guimaras bank, in the south of Point Bondulan. On this account a vessel beating up should not lose sight of the south light.
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